People v. Smith

Opinion

RUVOLO, P. J.

I. Introduction

It was reported to be the largest jewelry heist in San Francisco history. Intruders entered a Union Square jewelry store while it was closed for the weekend, at a time when the store’s safe room was being remodeled, and the store’s security camera had exhausted its videotape and was not recording. A vacant restaurant space was located on the other side of the safe room’s interior wall. The restaurant’s exterior door had been rigged, by persons unknown, in a way that enabled the intruders to gain entry even though it was ostensibly locked. From the vacant…