California Court of Appeal

Conviction and sentence for first degree burglary and assault with a deadly weapon is affirmed over defendant's claim that the instructions erroneously allowed the jury to convict him of burglary on the theory that the penetration of the victim's home by the victim's own door constituted the necessary entry.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/19/2007
• Published 12/19/2007

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Marcia R. Clark, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Los Angeles, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Ronald A. Jakob, Jennifer A. Jadovitz, and Christopher Beesley, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.