P. v. Bradley 8/24/06 CA2/8

State: California

Court: 1st District Court of Appeal 1st District Court of Appeal

Docket No: B175564

Case Date: 12/13/2006

Preview:Filed 8/24/06

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT DIVISION EIGHT

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. OMAR BRADLEY et al., Defendants and Appellants.

B175564 (Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. BA 240392)

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Jack W. Morgan, Judge. Affirmed, as modified. Ralph H. Goldsen for Defendant and Appellant Omar Bradley. Richard D. Miggins for Defendant and Appellant Amen Rahh. Tedford & Walters, Robert W. Walters, and James R. Tedford II for Defendant and Appellant John Johnson II. Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters and Susan Sullivan Pithey, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

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Appellants, former high officials of the City of Compton ("Compton" or "City"), appeal their convictions for misappropriation and misuse of public funds under Penal Code section 424.1 Appellants were alleged to have misappropriated and misused public funds by (1) charging personal expenses to their City credit cards, and (2) "double-billing" the City for their travel expenses by obtaining cash advances for the expenses and then, instead of paying for the expenses with cash advanced, charging such expenses to the City credit card. On appeal, appellants raise numerous contentions, all of which lack merit except for an error in the abstracts of judgment. Appellants violated the public trust in taking and using public funds for their personal enrichment. Such conduct violates the strict policy established by the Legislature, which our Supreme Court long ago affirmed in People v. Dillon (1926) 199 Cal. 1, 12, declaring, "the custodians of public moneys or funds should hold and keep them inviolate and use or disburse them only in strict compliance with the law." We therefore affirm the convictions, but we direct the clerk of the trial court to prepare modified abstracts of judgments. PROCEDURAL HISTORY Appellants and other defendants were charged by indictment with misappropriating public funds (

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