Brown
People v. Brown
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Sims, J.
Defendants Bruce Eric Brown, Robert Lorin Andersen, Ronald Ray Parcell, Gail Lizabeth Dippel, and Cheryl Elaine Hadley appeal from judgments entered after the trial court found them guilty of one count of burglary. (Pen. Code, § 459.)
In March 1983, defendants Parcell and Andersen attended meetings in Nevada where they planned to burglarize a jewelry store in Grass Valley, California. Unbeknownst to defendants, another man attending the meetings was a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) informant who alerted the FBI.
Parcell and Andersen then made several trips to Grass Valley to visit the jewelry store. On one trip, they successfully tested a key to turn off the burglar alarm.
On April 3, 1983, all the defendants held a last-minute planning session at a hotel in Reno. Present at the meeting was an undercover FBI agent. A hidden tape recorder recorded the meeting.
*1447 The defendants then traveled in a van and a Cadillac to Grass Valley. They were arrested in the vicinity of the jewelry store shortly after defendants Andersen and Brown entered the store to steal jewelry. When arrested, defendant Hadley was sitting in the Cadillac holding a CB radio microphone.…