Hay

Filed 2/6/

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

COURT OF APPEAL, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION ONE

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

EMOKE HAY, D082561

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v. (Super. Ct. No. 37-2019- 00024210-CU-FR-CTL)

DAVID MARINKOVICH,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from an order and amended judgment of the Superior Court of San Diego County, Carolyn Caietti, Judge. Affirmed. StormoenLaw, Ron A. Stormoen and Amber J. Babin for Defendant and Appellant. Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch, Kendra J. Hall and Sean M. Sullivan, for Plaintiff and Respondent. Plaintiff Emoke Hay (also known as “Emma”) filed a complaint against David Marinkovich that included a claim for violation of Penal Code section

502,1 which prohibits the unauthorized use of any computer system for an

Further statutory references are to the Penal Code unless otherwise stated. improper purpose. Hay alleged that Marinkovich made and retained an unauthorized copy of her computer hard drive, which contained her private and confidential data. After a civil jury trial, the jury found in favor of Marinkovich on each of Hay’s causes of action, and…