California Court of Appeal

Defendant's sentence enhancement for having previously been convicted of a prior serious felony, within the meaning of the Three Strikes law, is vacated where the record was insufficient to demonstrate that the prior conviction qualified as a serious felony.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/22/2005
• Published 06/23/2005

Judges

• COFFEE, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Christopher C. Hawthorne, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, April S. Rylaarsdam, Zee Rodriguez, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.