Crimes Against Property

Name: U.S. v. Vidal
Case #: 04-50185
Court: US Court of Appeals
District 9 Cir
Opinion Date: 10/10/2007
  • Categories: Crimes, Crimes Against Property

Vehicle Code section 10851 (vehicle theft) extends liability for vehicle theft to principals, accomplices, and accessories after the fact. Vidal's sentence for violation of 8 U.S.C. section 1326 was enhanced on the basis of his prior California conviction for violation…

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Name: People v. Blick
Case #: A112744
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 1 DCA
Division: 3
Opinion Date: 07/24/2007
  • Categories: Crimes, Crimes Against Property, General Principles, Jury Instructions, Mens Rea

The trial court's failure to include a specific intent to defraud requirement rendered the jury instructions for worker's compensation fraud erroneous. Blick was convicted of three insurance fraud offenses for collecting benefits for a knee injury when surveillance tapes showed…

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Name: People v. Cabrera
Case #: D047895
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 4 DCA
Division: 1
Opinion Date: 06/25/2007
  • Categories: Crimes, Crimes Against Property, Defenses, Evidence, Miscellaneous defenses, Similars/Character/Conduct

Where sufficient evidence supported a conviction for rape, there was no error where the court denied appellant's pretrial motion to dismiss the charge. Appellant was convicted of multiple offenses, including carjacking, arising out of two separate violent assaults against his…

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Name: People v. Medina
Case #: S137055
Court: CA Supreme Court
District CalSup
Opinion Date: 07/09/2007
  • Categories: Crimes, Crimes Against Property, Crimes Against the Person, Elements of Crimes

A completed carjacking is not a prerequisite for an attempt to violate section 209.5, subdivision (a) [kidnap during the commission of a carjacking]. Appellant attempted to take a vehicle from the victim, while her sleeping husband and children were in…

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Name: People v. Mays
Case #: D046696
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 4 DCA
Division: 1
Opinion Date: 02/28/2007
  • Categories: Areas Constitutional Law, Crimes, Crimes Against Property, Due Process

(1) Sufficient evidence of money laundering exists where a defendant conducts a transaction involving a monetary instrument which exceeds $5000. which is derived from criminal activity. Appellant ran an escort service which provided sexual services. He was convicted of pimping…

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Name: People v. Coleman
Case #: B186264
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 2 DCA
Division: 2
Opinion Date: 01/23/2007
  • Categories: Crimes, Crimes Against Property, Elements of Crimes

Ortega's employer hung the keys to his personal vehicle in a closet while he was at work. Ortega had access to the closet, but was not responsible for the keys. Coleman entered the work place, pointed a gun at Ortega,…

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Name: People v. Villalobos
Case #: E038143
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 4 DCA
Division: 2
Opinion Date: 11/30/2006
  • Categories: Crimes, Crimes Against Property

Appellants appealed their convictions for first degree robbery and burglary, arguing that an occupied motel room is not an "inhabited dwelling house" within the meaning of the relevant statutes if the room is rented only for one night. The appellate…

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Name: People v. Corcoran
Case #: B180779
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 2 DCA
Division: 4
Opinion Date: 09/22/2006
  • Categories: Crimes, Crimes Against Property, Crimes Against the Person

The appellate court rejected appellant's argument that there was insufficient evidence to sustain kidnap convictions where appellant and his accomplice herded the victims of an aborted robbery approximately 10 feet from a public area to a small back windowless office,…

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Name: People v. MacArthur
Case #: G035368
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 4 DCA
Division: 3
Opinion Date: 08/24/2006
  • Categories: Crimes, Crimes Against Property, General Principles, Jury Instructions

A conviction for receiving stolen property must be reversed where the jury was not instructed with the definitions of "stolen" and "theft." Penal Code section 496, subdivision (a), requires that the property be stolen or obtained by theft, i.e., taken…

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Name: People v. Smith
Case #: E037036
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 4 DCA
Division: 2
Opinion Date: 08/18/2006
  • Categories: Crimes, Crimes Against Property

The defendant was properly convicted of burglary after he forced his way into his estranged wife’s home, even though the house was community property. The defendant and his wife had jointly purchased the house during their marriage, but after the…

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