Certified for Partial Publication.
SIMS, Acting P.J.
In this case we hold that the trial court properly allowed a non-expert police officer to testify that shoeprints found in the dirt at the scene of a crime were "similar" to the pattern on the soles of defendant's shoes.
Defendant Jayson Allen Maglaya was convicted by a jury of first degree attempted burglary (Pen.Code, §§ 664/459; further undesignated statutory...
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