Opinion ID: 1150524
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Text: Debra Soria, a California Rehabilitation Center patient, had been in a residential drug treatment program in July 1973. She had been addicted to heroin at that time. She left the San Jose treatment facility in July 1973 and went to Salinas where she met Ward and Joseph. She was 17 years old and was attempting to earn money by prostitution when the two officers approached her in a narc car. They told her they would not arrest her on an outstanding warrant if she helped them. She agreed. The officers took her to the home of a friend of Soria, and gave her money with which to buy drugs. She purchased two quarter-spoons for $30. That evening she injected the heroin using an outfit given to her by Ward and Joseph. Joseph helped her tie off her arm in preparation for the injection. She gave herself the injection in the police car, parked behind the police station, after Joseph had gone into the station to get the outfit. During the summer of 1975, Soria met Ward at his request. He told her he wanted to recover guns that had been stolen from the district attorney's office. He gave her two quarters of heroin in a single balloon. She estimated that Ward and Joseph, either or both of them, had furnished her with heroin at least seven or eight times in exchange for information. On one occasion, Ward and Joseph drove her to a camp where, with money supplied by Joseph, she purchased heroin that she was then permitted to keep after it had been inspected by Joseph. The officers sometimes gave her money, but told her they preferred to give her heroin since the money was coming from their own pocket. Only once did Ward give Soria heroin directly. Joseph was not with him on that occasion. The two officers were together on each of the other occasions and had discussed the fact that they were going to give her heroin. She had never asked for it, and on one occasion when she had just left a drug center, she was not sure what she really wanted. They told her she might as well take it because they wanted her to help them out and they would help her  that she did not have to worry about being arrested anymore, and no one on the police force would bother her.