People v. Ryan CA3

BACKGROUND

Defendant stole a generator from his former landlord and pleaded guilty to grand theft. (Pen. Code, § 487, subd. (a).)1 The trial court suspended imposition of sentence

1 Undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code.

1 and placed defendant on probation for two years. A probation officer noted in a June 2021 probation report that he had reviewed records pertaining to defendant from the following sources: the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), and the trial court. Review of the records indicated that defendant had multiple convictions, including: (1) a 2003 juvenile disposition for felony grand theft (§ 487); (2) a 2005 juvenile disposition for attempted first degree burglary (§ 459); (3) six misdemeanor convictions between 2009 and 2017; (4) a conviction for second degree burglary in 2017 (§ 459); and (5) four misdemeanor convictions between 2017 and 2021. The probation report noted that defendant had been on probation when he committed the grand theft. Later that year, two police detectives conducted a probation search of defendant at his…