PEOPLE v. ACOSTA

No. G049326.

226 Cal.App.4th 108 (2014)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ROBERT CONRAD ACOSTA et al., Defendants and Appellants.

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

May 12, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rex Williams , under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant Robert Conrad Acosta.

Ann Hopkins , under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant Monique Evette Acosta.

Kamala D. Harris , Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Julie L. Garland , Assistant Attorney General, William M. Wood and Meagan J. Beale , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

IKOLA, J.

Under Penal Code section 502.5, a borrower under a loan secured by real estate may not intentionally harm the lender by removing statutorily specified improvements from the encumbered premises.1 Section 502.5 was amended to read in its present form some 91 years ago. Despite the age of the statute, we have not found a single appellate opinion, published

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