STATE v. CAMEZ

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, NOTICE: THIS DECISION DOES NOT CREATE LEGAL PRECEDENT AND MAY NOT BE CITED EXCEPT AS AUTHORIZED BY APPLICABLE RULES. See Ariz. R. Supreme Court 111(c); ARCAP 28(c); Ariz. R. Crim. P. 31.24 DIVISION ONE FILED: 7/9/2013 RUTH A. WILLINGHAM, CLERK BY: mjt IN THE COURT OF APPEALS STATE OF ARIZONA DIVISION ONE STATE OF ARIZONA, ) ) Appellee, ) ) v. ) ) RAY DAVID CAMEZ, ) ) Appellant. ) ) __________________________________) No. 1 CA-CR 12-0243 DEPARTMENT A MEMORANDUM DECISION (Not for Publication Rule 111, Rules of the Arizona Supreme Court) Appeal from the Superior Court in Maricopa County Cause No. CR2010-127306-001 The Honorable Sherry K. Stephens, Judge AFFIRMED Thomas C. Horne, Arizona Attorney General By Joseph T. Maziarz, Chief Counsel Criminal Appeals/Capital Litigation Section Alice Jones, Assistant Attorney General Attorneys for Appellee Phoenix James J. Haas, Maricopa County Public Defender By Terry J. Reid, Deputy Public Defender Attorneys for Appellant Phoenix D O W N I E, Judge ¶1 Ray David Camez appeals his convictions and sentences for forgery and criminal possession of a forgery device. For the following reasons, we affirm. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY ¶2 Law enforcement executed a search warrant at a Phoenix residence. Camez was the only person present at the residence. Officers seized currency later determined to be counterfeit, as well as debit and gift cards, an Epson copier/printer/scanner ( Epson printer ), two embossing machines, and a laminator. 1 ¶3 Camez was charged with forgery, a class four felony, and criminal possession of a forgery device, a class six felony. He failed to appear for trial and was tried in absentia. ¶4 At trial, a police officer testified about the embossing machines, laminating machine, and counterfeit currency found at Camez s home. A Secret Service agent testified that the seized evidence included counterfeit currency and images of U.S. currency on printed pieces of paper that had not yet been cut. He further testified that the Epson printer is a device commonly used to produce counterfeit currency. ¶5 Camez s pursuant to Rule counsel 20, moved Arizona 1 for a Rules judgment of of acquittal Criminal Procedure Police also seized marijuana and equipment used for growing marijuana. Camez is not challenging his drug-related convictions, so we do not discuss them further. 2 ( Rule ), arguing Camez s mere presence at the residence was insufficient and that no further nexus existed between Camez and the contraband found in the home. The court denied the motion. The jury found Camez guilty as charged, and he was sentenced to a term of imprisonment. ¶6 to Camez timely appealed. Arizona Revised Statutes We have jurisdiction pursuant ( A.R.S. ) sections 12-120.21, 13-4031, and -4033. DISCUSSION ¶7 proceed Camez contends the trial court permitted the State to on duplicitous charges and failed measures to ensure a unanimous verdict. to take remedial Because Camez failed to raise these arguments below, we review for fundamental error. State v. Henderson, 210 Ariz. 561, 567, ¶ 19, 115 P.3d 601, 607 (2005) Arizona (citation omitted). Constitution Article guarantees a 2, Section defendant unanimous jury verdict in a criminal case. right constitutes fundamental error. the 23 of right the to a A violation of that State v. Davis, 206 Ariz. 377, 390, ¶ 64, 79 P.3d 64, 77 (2003). ¶8 Camez does not contend that the indictment itself was duplicitous. See State v. Anderson, 210 Ariz. 327, 335, ¶ 13, 111 P.3d 369, 377 (2005) ( An indictment is duplicitous if it charges more than one crime in the same count. ). He instead argues the State proceeded on duplicitous charges. When the 3 text of an multiple indictment alleged refers criminal only acts to are one criminal introduced but prove to act, the charge, our supreme court has sometimes referred to this problem in shorthand as a duplicitous charge rather than a duplicitous indictment. P.3d 844, State v. Klokic, 219 Ariz. 241, 244, ¶ 12, 196 847 (App. 2008); see also Anderson, 210 Ariz. at 336-37, ¶ 20, 111 P.3d at 378-79 (when an indictment charges a single crime, yet evidence of more than one criminal act is presented to prove that crime, there is potential error not caused by a duplicitous indictment). ¶9 The forgery count alleged that Camez, with intent to defraud, knowingly possessed a forged instrument, to-wit: currency (to-wit: one-dollar hundred-dollar bills). the State forgery. bills, ten-dollar bills See A.R.S. § 13-2002(A)(2). did not attempt Its consistent to prove position more was than that U.S. and/or At trial, one Camez type of possessed counterfeit currency and that the jury could infer he possessed it with the intent to defraud based on the amount of currency found in the home, as well as the presence of other forgery devices - i.e., the embossing machines and laminator, which an officer testified were commonly used to produce counterfeit cards and various types of identification. ¶10 The criminal possession of a forgery device count alleged that Camez, with the intent to commit fraud, made or 4 possessed a plate, die, apparatus, equipment, software, access devise [sic], article, specifically designed instruments. See material, or adapted A.R.S. § good, for property, use in or forging 13-2003(A)(1). At supply written trial, the prosecutor told the jury that Camez committed this offense by using the Epson printer to print those [bills] and among other devices typically used for forgery. Read in context, the prosecutor s references to other devices were intended to focus the jury s attention on the circumstantial evidence that Camez intended to commit fraud with the Epson printer. See, e.g., State v. Murray, 184 Ariz. 9, 31, 906 P.2d 542, 564 (1995) ( The probative value of evidence is not reduced because it is circumstantial. ); State v. Rood, 11 Ariz. App. 102, 104, 462 P.2d 399, 401 (1969) ( [C]riminal intent is usually proven by circumstantial evidence . . . . ). ¶11 But even assuming arguendo that the State s trial position could be interpreted as relying on forgery devices in addition error. to the Epson printer, we would find no reversible A duplicitous charge constitutes fundamental error only if the jury determination may have been other than unanimous. Davis, 206 Ariz. at 390, 79 P.3d at 77 (no reversible error based on evidence of acts on three different days to support one charge because defendant interposed an alibi defense to all; the jury simply did not believe the defense ); see also State v. 5 Schroeder, 167 Ariz. 47, 53, 804 P.2d 776, 782 (App. 1990) (several instances of sexual abuse admitted to prove one charged count; any error in not taking curative measures to insure unanimity was not prejudicial because defendant presented the same defense to each of the acts). In the case at bar, there was no danger of a non-unanimous verdict because Camez offered the same mere presence defense to all charges, arguing nothing linked him to the items found in the home. In rendering its guilty verdicts, the jury obviously rejected this defense. ¶12 Along these same lines, Camez claims the evidence linking him to the offenses was insufficient. trial We will not set aside a jury verdict for insufficient evidence unless it clearly appears that upon no hypothesis whatever is there sufficient evidence to support the conclusion reached by the jury. State v. Arredondo, 155 Ariz. 314, 316, 746 P.2d 484, 486 (1987). To reverse based on insufficiency of the evidence, there must be a complete absence of probative facts to support the conviction. State v. Soto-Fong, 187 Ariz. 186, 200, 928 P.2d 610, 624 (1996) (citation omitted). ¶13 Camez was the only person present in the home when the search warrant was executed. The jury had before it evidence that Camez s bond paperwork listed that home s address as his residence. Without contradictory 6 evidence, reasonable jurors could have found a sufficient nexus between Camez and the home where the forgery-related evidence was seized. CONCLUSION ¶14 For the foregoing reasons, we affirm convictions and sentences. /s/ MARGARET H. DOWNIE, Judge CONCURRING: /s/ LAWRENCE F. WINTHROP, Presiding Judge /s/ DIANE M. JOHNSEN, Chief Judge 7 Camez s

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