People v. Johnson CA3

FACTS

Shortly after 12:00 noon on August 16, 2012, a security guard at the Carmel Pointe Apartments in Sacramento noticed that apartment number 119, occupied by Rahendra Lal, had a broken kitchen window. Lal had left for work that morning around 6:00. The security guard notified Kira Robinson, the complex’s assistant property manager, who went to apartment number 119 and saw that the window was broken and the door was slightly ajar. After determining that Lal was not home, Robinson entered. No one was there, but the shower was running, there were window blinds in the bathtub, and there was blood on the shower fixture. Robinson left without touching anything and called the police. In addition to the blood on the shower fixture, the responding officers found blood in the kitchen. Around 1:00 p.m., Robinson called Lal to tell him about the burglary. According to Robinson, defendant was not an employee of the apartment complex and had never been a tenant there. A surveillance camera video2 showed that around 11:39 a.m. on August 16, 2012, a person who appeared to be a light-skinned African-American male, standing five feet seven inches to five feet 10 inches tall and weighing 150 to…