People v. Sisuphan Essay

Appellant Lou Surivan Sisuphan took $22,600 in cash and $7,275.51 from (Toyota Marin the dealership defendant) his employers safe on July 3, 2007. He did this in hopes that a coworker would be held responsible for the disappearance of the specie and would be terminated. Sisuphan was convicted of embezzlement on April 15, 2008. In June 2008 he appeals from the judgment of conviction, contending that the trial judiciary made a mistake when it failed to instruct the jury that at the m he took the money, he intended to return it before criminal charges were filed. He also states that the trial court excluded evidence on that he restored the money to the company, claiming this evidence proved he never intended to keep it and consequently lacked the requisite intent for the crime. IssueThe question, before us, therefore, is whether evidence that Sisuphan returned the money clean tends to prove he lacked the requisite intent at the sequence of the taking. Was his the ordinal Amendmen t unspoilt to present defense and all pertinent evidence of meaning entertain to that defense violated? Rule of LawThe Fifth Amendment right to present defense and all pertinent evidence of significant value to that defense was not violated because the return of the lieu is not a defense to embezzlement. Fraudulent intent is an essential element of embezzlement. Although restoration of the plaza is not a defense, evidence of repayment may be pertinent to the extent it shows that a defendants intent at the time of the taking was not fraudulent. AnalysisSince Martin Sisuphan was authorized to manage the financing contracts and baffle payments from lenders on behalf of the defendant the lawsuit was effective. It does not matter that there was no intent of stealing the money because Section 508 (of the California Penal Code) states both clerk, agent, or servant of any person who fraudulently appropriates to his ownuse, or secretes with a fraudulent intent to appropriate to his ow n use, any property of another which has come into his control or care by rightfulness of his employment is guilty of embezzlement.HoldingThe issue is that Susuiphan intended to use the money for a purpose other than to which the dealership entrusted it to him, therefore the evidence that he returned the money before criminal charges were filed is irrelevant. The judgment is affirmed. Plaintiff was sentenced to 120 years in custody and 3 years of probation.