People v. Webb

Opinion

YEGAN, J.

If a picture is worth a thousand 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)) 1 , perjury (Pen. Code, § 118, subd. (a)), 2 and grand theft by false pretenses. (§ 487, subd. (a).) He contends the evidence is…