People v. Stewart CA1/5

Filed 4/9/15 P. v. Stewart CA1/

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION FIVE

THE PEOPLE,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

A139733

v. LORENZO STEWART, (Contra Costa County Super. Ct. No. 51004522) Defendant and Appellant.

A jury convicted Lorenzo Stewart (appellant) of first degree residential burglary, grand theft and battery, based on prosecution evidence he entered the home of Mara Galvao, whom he did not know, attacked her physically, and took a laptop computer belonging to her daughter. (Pen. Code, §§ 242, 459, 460, subd. (a), 487, subd. (a).) His defense at trial was that Galvao had invited him into her home, that they argued after she refused to pay him for drugs, and that he left with a laptop computer she had offered him as collateral. The…