Shropshire

FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS

Because some of defendants’ claims require close examination of the evidence presented at trial, we recite the facts in some detail where necessary. We omit other facts where their recitation is not necessary to decide the claims on appeal. September 17, 2012, Search of Dewer Road Property Deputy Terri Cissna was a deputy sheriff with the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Department. On September 17, 2012, she executed a search warrant for marijuana at a property on Dewer Road in Garden Valley (Dewer Road property). The property was owned by Roberts and his wife, and occupied by his family. Roberts was not present when the warrant was served. Cissna met Shropshire, who lived on the property. Cissna found two shotguns--one of which had a barrel shorter than lawfully permitted--and one rifle on a shelf in the master bedroom, along with indicia of Roberts’ occupancy of the room. On October 13, 2012, after numerous attempts to contact Roberts, Cissna pulled him over in order to interview him. Roberts said that with the exception of one, the guns belonged to someone else. Thefts from the Bear Creek Road Property Kurtis H. lived on a property on Bear Creek Road in El…