PEOPLE v. NAJERA

No. S141654.

43 Cal.4th 1132 (2008)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. MICHAEL JESSE NAJERA, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

June 5, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laura G. Schaefer, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson and Mary Jo Graves, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Raquel M. Gonzalez, Steve Oetting and Lynne G. McGinnis, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

BAXTER, J.

Defendant was spotted driving a stolen car less than a day after the owner had reported it missing. Defendant was using a shaved key—a key whose teeth have been shaved down to bypass the pins in the ignition cylinder—and the ignition system was, in the words of the arresting officer, "very loose." Personal property belonging to the car's owner was found in possession of the passenger, defendant's sister. Defendant...

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