California Court of Appeal

Conviction of defendant for grand theft, arising from an incident in which he and others staged an accident at a ski resort where they worked in order to obtain medical treatment for a preexisting injury to defendant's knee and to collect a cash settlement, is reversed where: 1) trial court's failure to instruct on the elements of theft by false pretenses was not harmless; 2) the jury was not properly instructed on all the elements of the enhancement; and 3) defendant's remaining contentions are rejected.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/29/2010
• Published 06/29/2010

Judges

• Hull, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas M. Singman, Edmund G. Brown, Jr.