California Court of Appeal

Convictions of defendant for forgery from an elder adult, grand theft by embezzlement and commercial burglary, for obtaining over $20,000 by passing checks with the forged signatures of his 83-year-old employer, are affirmed where: 1) contrary to defendant's claim that the evidence compelled the jury to find that the actual victim of his crime "was a business entity, and not an elder adult," the law recognizes no distinction between an individual and a name under which he or she does business; and 2) the evidence presented in this case is sufficient to support the jury's finding that defendant either knew or should have known that the money he was stealing belonged to an elder adult as opposed to a business.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/15/2010
• Published 11/15/2010

Judges

• PERREN

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David A. Andreasen, Edmund G. Brown Jr