California Court of Appeal

Penal Code section 368(b)(3)(A), enhancement for causing the death of a senior citizen, applies only to crimes of elder abuse and not to a charge of murder or manslaughter.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/21/2001
• Published 11/21/2001

Judges

• BENKE, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Gary Nelson, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Michael Delano Adams., Laurance S. Smith, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Sacramento, for Byron Jae Peterson.


• For Appellees:
  
•  Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Laura W. Halgren, Craig S. Nelson and Alana Cohen Butler, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.