California Court of Appeal

Conviction and sentence for assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury is affirmed where the Supreme Court rejected defendant's argument in a similar case and held that the group beating instruction, as it relates to whether a defendant personally inflicted great bodily injury in a group attack, is proper when the defendant personally uses force against the victim and the precise injurious effect of the defendant's actions is unclear.

Appellate Information

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

Judges

• NICHOLSON, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Matthew Alger, Fresno, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Mary Jo Graves, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Julie A. Hokans and Michael Dolida, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.