My question involves unemployment benefits for the state of: CALIFORNIA

So I had my hearing last week. EDD originally granted me benefits however the former employer appealed. I would like opinions on the outcome. I'm hoping I prevail as I did not do what they're accusing me of! I understand no one can guarantee the outcome, just looking for personal experiences and opinions.

I was fired in Sept as my former employer verified some of my sales from a few months prior and because a few "couldn't recall asking for the service" I was let go.

So the reason for them verifying my sales was different then what I was aware of. They indicated there was a "pattern" of me selling a lot of 1 specific product. That the person who came in late June or early July (former mgr couldn't remember when) and did an unofficial audit noticed this and it was a "red flag" So they "monitored" the situation by just continuing to review my sales. Then the judge asked why they didn't make calls then. Mgr had no answer. The judge kinda slammed them for that cause even the judge acknowledged that they customers may not remember as it was now a few months old.

Mgr acknowledged that I had not done anything on the day they decided to call the customers to verify the sales to warrant them making the calls nor had I done anything on the day I was actually fired.

They were also not allowed to submit docs as evidence as a "pattern" as the docs only showed what the customer bought not what I attempted to sell.

I explained to the judge that we had 4 pages of options of things to sell. Also, the system is very old so due to this it's not easy in the short time you are with a client to determine what they have and what they don't. The service I was selling is an easy sell and easy to quickly determine if the client has it or not. I told the judge that I pride myself on my integrity and would never open sales without client authorization.