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 and remanded for resentencing or, at the prosecution's election, redetermination of whether the prior battery conviction constituted a strike within the meaning of the Three Strikes Law. (Modified)

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/17/2006
• Published 11/17/2006

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.