California Court of Appeal

Actual movement of motor vehicle was not required to prove crime of carjacking, where victim was exposed to high level of risk and was compelled by use of force to be separated from his vehicle, as this was precisely the type of conduct that the legislature sought to deter by enacting carjacking statute. (Certified for partial publication).

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/10/2002
• Published 04/10/2002

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Joseph Shipp, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Sebastapol, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Assistant Attorney General, Patrick J. Whalen and Brian G. Smiley, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.