California Court of Appeal

Conviction of inflicting corporal injury to a cohabitant, with 25-year to life sentence based in part on two prior strikes is reversed where the People failed to prove that defendant's 1996 conviction for battery with serious bodily injury was a serious felony for purposes of Three Strike sentencing.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/19/2006
• Published 10/19/2006

Judges

• GEMELLO, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey M. Laurence and Sharon G. Birenbaum, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent., Randi Covin by appointment of the Court of Appeal Under the First DistrictAppellate Project'sIndependent Case System, Willits, for Defendant and Appellant.