What is the test for a claim-of-right defense in a personal injury case?

Citing People v. Tufunga (1999) 21 Cal.4th 935 (Tufunga), the prosecutor responded that the claim-of-right defense did not apply to attempts to satisfy or collect a debt or to attempts to recovery property on behalf of a third party based on agency. The prosecutor stated "there [was] no evidence that [Ross] took money from [Miller] or [Gallardo]." The prosecutor also argued the claim-of-right defense applied only to specific property, and, where the theft was of money, the money had to be not only in the same amount, it had to be the exact same currency as to which a claim of right was asserted.

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