California Court of Appeal

Under the "Three Strikes" law, if jury verdict is ambiguous on whether certain criminal acts occurred on the same occasion and arose from the same set of operative facts, a court should assume that the verdicts were based on acts that would give it the most discretion to impose concurrent terms.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/05/2001
• Published 06/05/2001

Judges

• WUNDERLICH, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Paul V. Carroll, Menlo Park, by Appointment of the Sixth District Appellate Program, for Defendant and Appellate., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Asst. Atty. General, Ronald A. Bass, Senior Asst. Atty. General, Bruce Ortega, Supervising Deputy Atty. General, Jeremy Friedlander, Deputy Atty. General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.