PEOPLE v. WEBB

No. B127289.

88 Cal.Rptr.2d 259 (1999)

74 Cal.App.4th 688

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Thomas Reed WEBB, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Six.

Review Denied November 23, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph H. Goldsen, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Goleta, for Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Carol Wendelin Pollack, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Susan D. Martynec, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Deborah J. Chuang, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


YEGAN, J.

If a picture is worth a 1000 words, a moving picture is worth a million. Here, a surreptitiously recorded videotape served as an evidentiary bombshell by depicting appellant as a robust commercial fisherman, not a sedentary invalid entitled to $42,000 worth of in-home attendant care. Thus, Thomas Reed Webb was convicted of making a false or fraudulent statement to obtain workers' compensation benefits (Ins.Code, § 1871.4, subd. (a)(1))

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