California Court of Appeal

Defendant is a "life prisoner", for purposes of a charge of assault by a life prisoner under Penal Code section 4500, because he is undergoing a commitment that, in the aggregate, potentially subjects him to actual life imprisonment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/10/2002
• Published 07/10/2002

Judges

• PREMO, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Office of the Attorney General, Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass, Senior Assistant Attorney General, René A. Chacón, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Julie Anne Hokans, Deputy Attorney General, Attorneys for Petitioner:  The State of California., Sixth District Appellate Program, Paul Couenhoven, Attorneys for Real Party in Interest:  Calvin Bell.


• For Appellees:
  
• No appearance for Respondent.