People v. Price CA3

BACKGROUND

Around 6:00 a.m. on November 8, 2014, Adam Hubert started his 1996 Subaru Outback that was parked in the driveway of his Woodland home. He let the car idle while he went indoors to get his daughter ready for a softball tournament. The driver’s side door was unlocked, while the other car doors were locked. He routinely left his car idling in the driveway as he got ready to go, and had been “[v]ery comfortable” with this practice. While brushing his teeth in the bathroom, Hubert heard girls talking in the driveway followed by a car door slamming. Hubert bolted out of the bathroom to check on his daughter. When Hubert determined that his daughter was in the house getting ready, he went outside to determine what was taking place. Hubert swung open the front door and saw his car “backing out of [his] drive, two bikes laying down in the driveway, and a passenger trying to get in to the car and walking alongside of it as it is backing out.” He later identified the person trying to get into the car as codefendant Venessa McKee-Salazar. Upon seeing Hubert, the female driver panicked and backed over one of the bicycles. According to Hubert, the driver “backed out, kind of pulled…