California Court of Appeal

A person has not committed auto burglary under Pen. Code 459, when that person has gained access to a vehicle-s trunk by opening an unlocked passenger door and thereafter lifting a trunk latch because such a person has not entered a -vehicle . . . when the doors are locked.-

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/30/2001
• Published 01/30/2001

Judges

• ALDRICH, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Judith Kahn, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Carol Wendelin Pollack, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Mary Sanchez, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Steven E. Mercer, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.