Opinion ID: 1425642
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Heading: Rodolfo Pambid

Text: On Friday, October 17, 1980, Rodolfo Pambid, who was homosexual, drove to West Hollywood from his home in San Francisco, intending to visit some friends. He arrived at his friend Ray Parker's house at 11 p.m., but Parker was not at home. Pambid drove to the Spike to look for him. He did not see Parker at the Spike, but had a brief conversation with a Black man who approached him at the bar. Pambid mentioned he was walking to bars in the vicinity. The man asked if Pambid wanted to smoke some marijuana with him; Pambid declined and went to another part of the bar. Pambid left a few minutes before midnight and started walking in the direction of the Rusty Nail. As he reached the corner a dark Datsun 280Z with a sunroof pulled up beside him. The driver, a Black man, offered him a ride, but he refused. The man persisted, and Pambid agreed and got in the car. Only after they began to drive did Pambid recognize the driver as the person who had approached him at the Spike. The man said he was going to the same bar as Pambid, but first wanted to stop at a liquor store. He pulled into a liquor store parking lot and entered the store while Pambid waited in the car. He soon returned and continued driving. After travelling a short distance the man turned onto a side street and stopped. Pambid, thinking that he and the driver were going to walk from that location to the bar, got out of the car and waited. He watched the driver apparently try to extract something from behind his seat. He saw the driver close his door and walk around the back of the car toward him. As he approached, the man pulled out some kind of club from behind his leg [7] and swung it at Pambid's head. Pambid blocked the blow with his arms and ran away. As he did, he heard the man yell, I'm going to kill you, I'll remember you. He did not report the incident to the police, feeling that it was just another mugging statistic. About six months later, however, he read an article in a gay newspaper requesting information regarding attacks in the West Hollywood area. He responded, and Detective Thies visited him in San Francisco. Thies showed him six photographs, including one of defendant. He could not positively identify anybody but selected a photograph of someone other than defendant as resembling his attacker. At both the preliminary hearing and trial, however, Pambid positively and unwaveringly identified defendant as his attacker.