People v. Pridemore CA1/4

I. BACKGROUND

A. The Prosecution’s Case In October 2013, Wulff Electric, an electrical contracting company, was performing work at a Honda dealership in Vacaville when some of its equipment, which had been locked up inside a fence surrounding the job site, went missing overnight, specifically some electrical cords, ladders and a pushcart. Much of the equipment was marked with stickers identifying it as belonging to Wulff Electric. The same day it was discovered the equipment was missing, a man named Gerald showed up at the dealership and told Matthew Guerrero, the Wulff Electric foreman, that the missing equipment was at a trailer park about half a mile away. Guerrero accompanied Gerald to the trailer park, and on the way called the police to alert them to the situation. Once at the trailer park, Guerrero and Gerald discovered some of the missing equipment in Pridemore’s trailer home and backyard. Pridemore, who was inside the trailer, helped Guerrero load the stolen equipment onto his truck. Guerrero testified that Pridemore told him an acquaintance of his said Wulff Electric owed him some money, so Pridemore helped the man steal some of Wulff Electric’s equipment.…