California Court of Appeal

Conviction and sentence based on no contest plea to vehicular manslaughter without gross negligence and driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury is reversed as to driving under the influence where that count is a necessarily lesser included offense of vehicular manslaughter without gross negligence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/02/2007
• Published 10/02/2007

Judges

• PERREN, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• S.R. Balash, Jr., Santa Barbara, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, John R. Gorey, John Yang, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.