Read People v. Lacefield, B191217

Conviction for obstructing or resisting an executive officer in the performance of duty in violation of Penal Code section 69 is reversed where the trial court committed reversible error when it refused to instruct on Penal Code section 148(a)(1) as a lesser included offense of section 69.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/28/2007
• Published 11/28/2007

Judges

• FLIER, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Gerald Peters, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Linda C. Johnson and Gary A. Lieberman, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.