Court Opinion

ID: 9739037
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 20:07:42.922355+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:38:41.856441
License: Public Domain

R. R. Lamb, J.
(concurring). I concur with the result reached by the majority, but write separately to express disagreement with the majority’s holding that the trial court’s instruction on the second presumption was error because it was unwarranted by the evidence.
The prosecution advanced the theory that defendant was guilty of Medicaid fraud as an aider and abettor. In order to prove defendant’s guilt on this theory it would be necessary to show that the crime was committed, i.e., that Drs. Tocco and Kelly knowingly submitted false claims to Medicaid. Since the billing was done using computerized tapes based on Drs. Tocco and Kelly’s submitted data, the second presumption was appropriate for the jury to use for determining that the crime, which defendant allegedly had aided and abetted, was actually committed. I would find no error in the trial court’s instruction on the second presumption.