Opinion ID: 1159546
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Heading: The facts presented at the preliminary examination

Text: In the early morning hours of January 21, 1969, Raul D. Amescua, a police officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, interviewed petitioner's wife, Judith Duke, at 433 Delores Street. She complained to the officer that petitioner had slapped and beaten her, that she was afraid of him, and that she had observed a bottle of red pills in a medicine cabinet in the bathroom which she had never seen before. She gave the officer permission to enter her house at 413 McDonald Street, indicated that the front door was unlocked, and said that the petitioner was asleep in the bedroom. The officer summarized the result of the interview: she gave me permission to enter her house to find out what these pills were and see if I could arrest her husband for ADW. [2] Petitioner's wife did not accompany Officer Amescua and his fellow officer to her home. The officers knocked on the front door, waited about 30 seconds, heard no response or any other noise, did not identify themselves as police officers, did not verbally demand admittance, did not explain the purpose for which they desired admittance, opened the closed but unlocked door, and walked into petitioner's bedroom where he was sleeping. The officers approached petitioner, asking him if his name was Paul Duke. Petitioner responded in the affirmative. After speaking briefly with petitioner, Officer Amescua went into the bathroom of the residence, looked into the medicine cabinet, and found a bottle containing red pills on the third shelf. The officers placed petitioner under arrest. A forensic chemist later identified the pills as capsules of sodium secobarbital, a restricted dangerous drug which induces sleep.