California Court of Appeal

Conviction for attempting to evade an officer is affirmed over claims of error that California lacked territorial jurisdiction where the trial court properly found that there was a sufficient connection between defendant, his crime and the circumstances of his crime such that the state had a legitimate interest in charging for a felony evasion of an officer even though the crime culminated on a federal enclave.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/08/2008
• Published 08/08/2008

Judges

• BENKE, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Steven J. Carroll, San Diego County Public Defender, Matthew Braner and Zaki Zehawi, Deputy Public Defenders, for Appellant and Defendant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Steve Oetting and Robin Derman, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.