California Court of Appeal

Sentence based on prior strike conviction, occuring in adult court when defendant was 16 years old, is affirmed over claims that: 1) the strike sentence in the current case must be set aside because the Legislature did not intend to treat nonforcible sex between minors as a strike; and 2) imposing a strike sentence on him violated principles of equal protection as a juvenile adjudication for the same offense is not a strike.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/19/2007
• Published 06/19/2007

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Ann Hopkins, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Mary Jo Graves and Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Louis M. Vasquez, Brian Alvarez, Rachelle Newcomb and William K. Kim, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.