California Court of Appeal

Sentence applied to convictions for first degree murder, first degree robbery and first degree burglary is reversed where separate sentences imposed for the robbery and burglary convictions, in addition to the sentence for murder, violated Penal Code section 654's prohibition against double punishment since all three crimes were part of a single course of indivisible conduct carried out with the intent to fulfill a single objective.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/20/2007
• Published 11/20/2007

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Steven A. Torres, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Erika Hiramatsu and Christine Levingston Bergman, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.