California Court of Appeal

A sentence of 115 years plus 444 years to life, where defendant committed 12 armed robberies, shot, severely wounded, and permanently disabled an innocent victim in one of them, and had three prior serious felony convictions for robbery, does not violate the constitutional ban on cruel and/or unusual punishment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/20/2001
• Published 06/20/2001

Judges

• SIMS, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  John Steinberg, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, John G. McLean, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Mary Jo Graves, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.