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PEOPLE v. CASAS

No. E048184.

184 Cal.App.4th 1242 (2010)

109 Cal.Rptr.3d 811

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JORGE JOSE CASAS, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Two.

May 25, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thien Huong Tran, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, and Meredith A. Strong, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

RAMIREZ, P. J.

Defendant, Jorge Jose Casas, a salesman at a car dealership, used a trade-in vehicle to follow a customer home to collect the downpayment, a process referred to as "chasing." However, he did not return to the dealership immediately with the downpayment or the trade-in vehicle, using the vehicle to drive nearly 400 miles in search of drugs to purchase using the cash portion of the downpayment. He was convicted of embezzlement (Pen....

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