California Court of Appeal

Conviction and sentence for pimping a prostitute under the age of 16 and abetting a lewd act on the same female without force or duress are affirmed over defendant's claim that the trial court erred in imposing the upper term sentence based on facts not found by the jury. (On transfer from Supreme Court).

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/21/2007
• Published 12/21/2007

Judges

• RUSHING, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey A. Glick under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Appellant for Defendant and Appellant Michael Cedric Guess., Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Mary Jo Graves, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Stan Helfman, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Eric D. Share, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Violet M. Lee, Deputy Attorney General, Attorneys for Plaintiff and Respondent The People.