P.
P. v. Torrez CA2/2
Opinion
Opinion
FACTS
Prosecution Evidence Ronald Hansen was the manager of a gated 37-unit apartment complex on Live Oak Street in San Gabriel. Access to the building was through a secured pedestrian gate that required either a key or a code to open. Tenants could also “buzz in” visitors through the pedestrian gate. A secured drive-through gate to the parking garage which was “directly underneath the apartments” required a remote control opener to enter and exit. Security cameras triggered by motion detectors were placed at the pedestrian and drive-through gates, and by the elevator and stairwell in the parking garage. Hansen
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2 monitored the live feed in his apartment and the cameras recorded when motion was detected.2 On November 27, 2010, around midnight, Hansen saw Brown’s car pull up to the drive-through gate. Torrez walked over to the pedestrian gate and appeared to be using the telephone that dialed tenant apartments. Torrez entered the complex. Hansen next saw Torrez in the stairwell to the garage and then shortly thereafter in the garage walking between a Honda Accord and a Volvo Wagon owned by…