People v. Hawkins

Opinion

BAMATTRE MANOUKIAN, Acting P. J.

After hearing testimony for six days, a jury acquitted defendant David Wesley Hawkins of a charge of misappropriating a trade secret (count 1; Pen. Code, § 499c) 1 and convicted him of a relatively new computer crime, the felony of knowingly accessing and taking data from a computer system (count 2; § 502, subd. (c)(2)). The jury found not tme that the property taken, source code, was valued at more than $2.5 million. (§ 12022.6, subd. (a)(4).)

The trial court denied defendant’s motions for new trial and to reduce the offense to a misdemeanor. The court…