Store Security Video Evidence, Without Any In-Person Identification, Can Be Used to Convict You
Our office has represented many people accused of shoplifting, theft crimes in parking lots and violent crimes in public places. Often a security camera film captures the events. Often the film provides our clients a defense or impeaches the claims written in a police report.
In the following case, such security camera films hurt the defendant.
Over a twenty-one month period in 2008 and 2009, Defendant Randy Alan Larkins allegedly broke into over a dozen gym lockers at Southern California Bally’s, 24 Hour Fitness, and L.A. Fitness. When arrested, he was found in possession of twelve membership cards that were not issued to him for Bally’s and 24 Hour Fitness, mail that was not his own, driver’s licenses that were not his and dozens of credit cards that were not his own.
Larkins was charged with and subsequently convicted of five counts of second degree commercial burglary (California Penal Code
