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FACTS

On December 3, 2011, Sarah Campbell (Sarah)2 was at the home of her father, Gary Hartman, when she noticed several of her father‟s firearms were missing. She informed the Tuolumne County Sheriff‟s Department (TCSD) of the missing weapons. Hartman had last noticed the firearms were in his house approximately one month prior. Sarah and Hartman suspected appellant, Sarah‟s estranged husband, had taken the guns. On a Tuesday or Wednesday in early December or late November of 2011, appellant and a friend took several firearms to a gun store in Jamestown for appraisal.

All further statutory references are to the Penal Code unless otherwise noted. For the sake of brevity and clarity, and not out of disrespect, we refer to Sarah Campbell by her first name.

2 They left the firearms with a store employee, Michael Petersen, and appellant returned the following Monday and retrieved them. Petersen had heard from a friend who had connections to Hartman that some firearms belonging to Hartman had been stolen. Petersen told his friend about the guns appellant had brought to the store, and advised his friend to call the Sheriff‟s Department. On January 5, 2012, Hartman told…