People v. Padilla

Defendant, Robert Allen Padilla, appeals the judgment finding him guilty of escape and conspiracy. He also appeals his adjudication as a habitual criminal. We affirm.

While an inmate in a county jail, defendant got out of a locked building through a hole cut in a screen over the exercise yard. He discarded the orange-colored clothing that identified him as a maximum security prisoner and changed into other clothing. He attempted to leave the facility grounds, but was apprehended when he became entangled at the top of the innermost of two barbed wire fences surrounding the facility.

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