Opinion ID: 1277356
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Heading: Deborah T. March 1975 Attempted Burglary

Text: Shortly after midnight on March 5, 1975, the police responded to a telephone call from Deborah T., regarding a possible prowler at the Imperial Beach apartment complex in which she resided. Police officers located defendant, barefoot, 30 to 40 feet from her residence, walking away at a fast pace, and detained him. Although Deborah was unable to identify defendant positively, fingerprints lifted from a window screen at her apartment subsequently were matched to those belonging to defendant. Defendant waived his rights under Miranda v. Arizona (1966) 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 and gave investigating officers a number of varying explanations as to what he was doing at the apartment complex at that hour, initially denying being near Deborah's window. The following day, after being reread his Miranda rights, defendant confessed that he had opened the window with the intent of sexually assaulting her. During this interrogation, defendant also described his involvement in certain other offenses that the prosecution offered as evidence in aggravation.