Supreme Court of California

For purposes of the offense of robbery, all employees have constructive possession of the employer's property while on duty and thus may be separate victims of a robbery of the employer's business, assuming the other elements of robbery are met as to each employee.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/19/2009
• Published 02/19/2009

Judges

• GEORGE, C.J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• John Steinberg, Berkeley, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant Maurice Kenney., Cara DeVito, West Hills, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant Andre Rene Scott., Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Manuel M. Medeiros, State Solicitor General, Robert R. Anderson and Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Mary Jo Graves and Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorneys General, Janet E. Neeley, J. Robert Jibson, and Raymond L. Brosterhous II, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.