California Court of Appeal

Conviction and sentence for unlawful driving or taking of a vehicle without the owner's consent and of possession of a controlled substance is affirmed over claims that: 1) the trial court erred in instructing the jury in accordance with CALCRIM No. 376 on possession of recently stolen property as evidence of a crime; and 2) the evidence failed to support defendant's conviction of violating Vehicle Code section 10851(a).

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/09/2007
• Published 08/09/2007

Judges

• BOREN, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Cynthia L. Barnes, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Susan D. Martynec and Marc E. Turchin, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.