Bolding

*1038 INTRODUCTION

Defendant Jedadiah Ray Bolding was convicted of one count of grand theft and eight counts of money laundering. On appeal, he challenges his money laundering convictions, in part, on the ground that the prosecution failed to offer sufficient evidence tracing the illegally obtained money to the monetary transactions involved in each of the money laundering counts. We conclude there was sufficient evidence supporting defendant's money laundering convictions based on the language of Penal Code section 186.10, subdivision (a), and current analogous federal law on money laundering.

*1039 Defendant relies on the single published California case that has addressed tracing under Penal Code section 186.10, People v. Mays (2007) 148 Cal.App.4th 13 , 55 Cal.Rptr.3d 356 ( Mays ). That opinion concluded that California law requires dollar for dollar tracing, regardless of the total amount of illegally obtained money, if the illegally obtained money is commingled with legally obtained money in a defendant's bank account.

Mays relied on federal case law that, even when the Mays case issued, was recognized as a minority view, and on a federal statute that has since been…