People v. Agtarap CA6

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

A. Charges, Trial, and Sentencing On October 5, 2021, the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office filed a fourth amended information charging Agtarap with 13 criminal counts as follows: two counts of procuring and offering a false or forged instrument (a forged bankruptcy petition) in victim J.M.’s 3 name without his consent (Pen. Code4, § 115, subd. (a); counts 1 and 2); one count of procuring and offering a false or forged instrument (a false continuing disability review report) to the Social Security Administration (SSA) (§ 115, subd. (a); count 3); six counts of grand theft by false pretenses of property belonging to victims M.G., B.C., the SSA, J.M., R.G., and M.M. (§ 487, subd. (a); counts 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, and 13); two counts of grand theft by embezzlement of property belonging to victims M.M. and J.M. (§ 503; counts 7 and 8); one count of second degree commercial burglary by

2 In her opening brief, Agtarap also raised two other issues on appeal as follows: (1) she argued that two of her convictions (Counts 1 and 2) for procuring and offering a false or forged instrument should be reversed as time-barred; and (2) she contended…