People v. Colby CA3

BACKGROUND

Defendant worked with Scott Lantsberger and Doris Earl at the District. Lantsberger was the District’s assistant superintendent of business services and oversaw fiscal and other services. Defendant was Lantsberger’s administrative assistant. Among other things, she generated and sent out invoices for the rental of District facilities. Although it was not her responsibility to distribute mail, defendant regularly opened and distributed office mail. Earl, the District’s bookkeeper, logged facility-rental invoices into QSS, the District’s primary financial electronic system, and was responsible for collecting monies due and making deposits, including filling out deposit slips and stamping the backs of checks to be deposited. It was Earl’s and not defendant’s responsibility to make deposits at the bank. But defendant frequently volunteered to make deposits for Earl. According to Earl, the only other person who made bank deposits was Earl’s supervisor, Kilee Lane; Lane made deposits for Earl about once every five months.

2 Earl expected defendant to go directly to the bank when she entrusted defendant with the deposit bag. Earl did not keep deposits in her desk and she did…