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FACTS

A. Prosecution Evidence On August 6, 2011, Stephanie Villa was employed as an asset protection associate in a Walmart store in Rosemead. She watched five closed circuit television monitors displaying different areas of the store, including the cash registers. Villa was able to move some of the television cameras to adjust her view. Video recordings of the pertinent events that she witnessed were played for

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2 the jury. At 3:48 p.m., Villa saw appellant accompanying a child in a shopping cart. Appellant opened a package of band-aids, placed one on his finger and several others in his pocket, and replaced the package on a shelf. He then pushed his cart to the children’s clothing department, where he joined Sandra Hernandez, who had a second shopping cart containing another child and a reusable shopping bag. Hernandez and appellant selected items of children’s clothing that appellant appeared to place in the shopping bag. According to Villa, when appellant and Hernandez left the children’s clothing department and moved toward the cash registers, the shopping bag in the cart seemed to be “much fuller than when…