California Court of Appeal

Conviction and sentence for failure to stop and assist at the scene of an accident are affirmed where: 1) section 20001 of the Vehicle Code requires only constructive, not actual, knowledge that an accident has occurred, and a jury instruction to that effect was proper; and 2) a great-bodily-injury sentence enhancement was correctly applied.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/14/2009
• Published 01/14/2009

Judges

• RICHMAN, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Riordan & Horgan, Dennis P. Riordan, Donald M. Horgan, Michael Romano, San Francisco, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General, Dana R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Martin S. Kaye, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Michael E. Banister, Deputy Attorney General, Christopher W. Grove, Deputy Attorney General, for Defendant and Respondent.