Speck

Filed 2/2/22

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT

(El Dorado) ----

THE PEOPLE, C093273

Plaintiff and Respondent, (Super. Ct. Nos. P19CRF0512,

P19CRM0463,

v. P19CRM0483,)

RICHARD WALTER SPECK,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of El Dorado County, Kenneth J. Melikian, Judge. Reversed.

Deanna Lynn Lopas, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Rob Bonta, Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Eric L. Christoffersen, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Ivan P. Marrs, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

1 A jury found defendant Richard Walter Speck guilty of felony vehicle theft (Veh. Code, § 10851, subd. (a)) and receiving stolen property (Pen. Code, § 496d) with special allegations that the Honda was valued at over $950.1 Defendant contends on appeal that the trial court prejudicially erred in failing to instruct…