P. v. Zingsheim
Thomas T. Zingsheim, Robert J. Maxwell, and Michael J. Murphy, along with Tuesdae Ditmars and Evan Baltsas, were charged with various crimes stemming out of two residential burglaries. After Ditmars and Baltsas pled guilty, a bifurcated jury trial proceeded on a consolidated amended information as to Zingsheim, Maxwell and Murphy. The jury found the three defendants guilty of the following offenses committed at the residence of Ryan Guerrero on January 29, 2005: count 1, first degree robbery (Pen. Code,[1] 211, 212.5, subd. (a)); count 2, assault with a semiautomatic firearm, a handgun ( 245, subd. (b)); count 3, assault with a semiautomatic firearm, a rifle ( 245, subd. (b)); count 4, residential burglary ( 459, 460); count 5, false imprisonment by violence or menace ( 236, 237, subd. (a)); count 6, grand theft of personal property ( 487, subd. (a)); count 7, intimidating a witness by malicious use of force or violence ( 136.1, subd. (c)(1)); and counts 9, 10, 11 and 12, tampering with electric, telephone and cable television lines ( 591). Maxwell alone was found guilty of count 8 for tampering with an electrical line connected to an alarm system.
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