The Second Appellate District affirmed a judgment. The court held that there was no error in the imposition of separate punishments for the crimes of bringing alcohol into a jail facility and possessing alcohol in a jail facility; the two crimes had separate and distinct objectives.
Alfonso Torres and Adan Barajas were inmates at a minimum security prison fire camp. A correctional officer saw a car drive into the camp and park near a trash can. The driver got out of the car, opened and closed his car trunk, did something outside of the officer’s view, and then got back into his car and drove away. As he was driving away, the driver honked his horn repeatedly. As the officer watched, Torres and Barajas ran to the trash can, retrieved several white trash bags, and ran back into a nearby building. When discovered by officers, Torres and Barajas were going through the bags and dividing up the contents. The bags contained, among other things, three bottles of vodka.
