California Court of Appeal

Conviction of attempted murder of a public official, with deadly weapon related enhancement and counts, damaging jail property, special finding of 5 priors, and sentence to total aggregate term of 259 years to life, is affirmed over claims that: 1) defendant was erroneously convicted of both possession of a weapon and possession of a weapon while in custody; and 2) the trial court made several sentencing errors.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/25/2006
• Published 07/25/2006

Judges

• BUTZ, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Christine Vento, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, San Jose, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Mary Jo Graves, Assistant Attorney General, Carlos A. Martinez and Jeanne Wolfe, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.