People v. Rodriguez CA2/8

FACTS

Rodriguez was charged with breaking into three homes over the course of several months in 2010. All of the homes were in Mount Washington, within a half mile of one another. On September 20, 2010, Alexis Djivre came home to find someone had broken into her house on Killarne Avenue and left it in disarray. A window screen had been removed from a bedroom window and the door was unlocked. Djivre could not identify what, if anything, was missing from her house, other than the comforter from her bed. Sharon Bernard had just finished building a new house for her family on Roseview Avenue, but had not yet moved in. She came by almost every day, however, with items for the new house. On the morning of November 1, 2010, Bernard arrived at the new house and discovered someone had dragged a bench underneath the garage window. The garage window was broken, as was a bedroom window on the lower floor. Window screens from other windows were also pried off or damaged. It did not appear anyone was able to enter the home because all the windows and doors were still locked. Bernard did not notice anything missing from the house. A fingerprint taken from the home matched Rodriguez’s prints. On…