A jury convicted appellant of entering a truck parking yard and removing catalytic converters from the trucks. The Court of Appeal held that the trial court erred in admitting the testimony of an employee and a spreadsheet as to the catalytic converters’ replacement costs, both of which were inadmissible hearsay. The spreadsheet was prepared outside the courtroom specifically for trial and was offered to prove the catalytic converter replacement costs it contained. The portion of the employee’s testimony simply repeating the replacement costs from the spreadsheet did nothing more than “relate as true case-specific facts asserted in hearsay statements.” (People v. Sanchez (2016) 63 Cal.4th 665, 686.) Absent the testimony and spreadsheet, it was reasonably probable that the jury would have acquitted appellant of the thefts. Appellant’s convictions on 27 counts of grand theft were reversed and the matter remanded to the trial court to (1) provide the prosecution an opportunity to retry the counts, and (2) conduct a full resentencing.
