California Court of Appeal

Convictions and sentence arising out of a fraudulent investment scheme are affirmed in part and vacated in part where 1) defendant could be convicted only of one count of forgery per forged instrument; and 2) separate sentences for two forgery counts were improper when the forgery was part and parcel of the theft, securities fraud, and burglary.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/15/2009
• Published 01/15/2009

Judges

• MORRISON, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Athena Shudde, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, San Diego, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Carlos A. Martinez and Catherine G. Tennant, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.