[quote=bearishgurl]I predict if she DOES end up having to cop a plea to a felony charge, then the T&C’s of her (3-yr?) probation (to a probation officer) will have a provision that upon successful completion of all of them, she can go back into a review hg in 3 years and get it reduced to a misd. Then she will be able to apply for relief under PC 1203.4.
Not sure if she was ever booked at all or had time served but I honestly don’t see her as being ordered to “do time” if her plea is accepted.[/quote]I don’t know if she will be able to escape time. Though if she does spend time, it will be minor (week – month). I will go with a range on probation, 3-5 year. They are going to be sensitive to amount of time being served because of the disabled dependent. I suspect that fines may exceed $10,000 on each. She had enough money to burn $1000 on the subscriptions as well as afford a Carmel Valley house.
As CA renter mentioned, using her job in the commission of a crime could sacrifice her pension and job. I don’t know what her job entails, but if it has to do with property tax assessments or she used contacts within the office to cause the reassessment, she will want this charge to disappear and will take a greater hit on a different charge. The only other question on this would be; did she initiate any of the other actions while at work? Though this might not qualify as ‘in the commission of her work’, if she did use work resources(phone?), she could lose the job but not the pension. NOTE: assessor’s parcel DB is also accessible for non employee – so it may be considered same as using work related assets but not ‘in the commission of her work’. –besides, as you noted, she already knew where the parcel was, and who bought it.
As for ability to prove per
I haven’t read the briefs or seen the PE transcripts in this case, but if Rowe actually did 2, 3 and 4 “manually” (postcards, snail mail, money orders), it would be hard to prove to a jury it was she who did these things.
Proving ‘who’ is not that hard if it was done manually. Paper stores fingerprints very easily and most mail handling is automated (by machines). The postal employee making final delivery often wears gloves because handling a lot of paper dries out your skin. Rowe might have worn gloves, but I suspect not. I don’t think she completely considered the repercussions of her actions. Her prints should not be on any of the items if she was innocent – provided the artifacts can be recovered.
[quote=bearishgurl]It’s not like Rowe was seeking a particular “college prep” course for her daughter or an “edge” for college admission. I’m no psychiatrist, but to me, this smacks of a delusional mindset with narcissistic tendencies, namely borderline personality disorder.
I keep asking myself WHY or HOW something like this could happen in the REAL world! It’s unreal to me… maybe I’m missing something important here, lol…
any “expert comments,” feel free to come forth …. scaredy …??[/quote]I would agree with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) or something similar. Having dealt with such a person (I think it came up on the ‘Casey’ saga), I am painfully aware of what it is like. One thing I know is that NPDs can ‘fixate’ on feeling wronged and can have a problem moving on. They can fixate even when they were not really wronged, just because they feel entitled to an item they did not get. She might have a bit of OCD to help drive the fixation. She went a bit further than I would expect an NPD to go.
