California v. Latten
Annotate this CaseDefendant-appellant Angela Latten and two co-defendants drove to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife compound in Lewiston, California. They used a grinder to break the lock to the chain blocking the driveway, drove into the property, and entered five structures on the property: two evidence trailers, one housing marijuana and the other, oil-extraction tools; the warden’s garage housing an all-terrain vehicle and other tools; the fisheries shop housing metalworking tools and wading gear; and the fisheries mobile home housing offices. Defendant and one of her codefendants left shoe prints on top of a trailer, which they used to climb through a window to enter the fisheries mobile home. Defendant also left shoe prints in the warden’s garage. A witness, who lived on a property overlooking the compound, heard the grinder and saw a car with the silhouettes of three individuals inside drive into the compound. The witness later saw the car leave the compound and communicated that information to a 911 dispatcher when reporting the burglary. Around 30 minutes after the witness first reported the burglary, a Trinity County Sheriff’s deputy stopped a car matching the description provided by the witness which was several hundred yards from the compound with defendant and her codefendants inside. Defendant was ultimately convicted of five counts of burglary, one count for each of the five buildings. She appealed, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence presented against her at trial and her resulting sentences. Finding no reversible error, the Court of Appeal affirmed defendant's convictions.
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