California Court of Appeal

The 15-year-minimum term specified in former Penal Code section 186.22, subdivision (4), which in 1999 was the result of a legislative enactment, cannot reduce the 25-year-to-life term specified in section Penal Code section 190, subdivisions (a) and (e), enacted by initiative.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/10/2001
• Published 05/10/2001

Judges

•  TURNER, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  John Steinberg and Mark D. Lenenberg, Chatsworth, under appointments by the Court of Appeal, for Defendants and Appellants., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Carol Wendelin Pollack, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Steven D. Matthews, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Jennevee H. De Guzman, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.