P. v. Roberson
On April 11, 2012, two unidentified men were seen on video monitors committing a burglary at an Autodesk building in San Rafael. Police officers responded and saw a sedan with four men leaving the scene about 2:00 a.m. The car sped away and the police pursued, but lost sight of the car. At 3:30 a.m., a police officer observed a car turn the wrong way onto a one-way street and commenced a pursuit of the vehicle, which entered Highway 101 in the southbound lanes. During the pursuit, the car made a U-turn on the freeway, threatening a head-on collision with one of the pursuing police vehicles. The car went off the roadway into a muddy ditch. Oges Roberson, in muddy pants and shoes, was arrested nearby. Two other men, similarly muddy, were also apprehended. The car was a rental vehicle for which Roberson was an authorized driver. It contained items that had been taken from Autodesk, as well as some of Roberson’s personal papers.
Roberson was tried by a jury, which found him guilty of commercial burglary (Pen. Code, § 459),[1] receiving stolen property (§ 496, subd. (a)), and evasion of a peace officer with willful or wanton disregard for the safety of other persons or property (Veh. Code, § 2800.2, subd. (a)).
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