California Court of Appeal

Sentences of indeterminate term of 15 years to life for aggravated sexual assault and consecutive low term of three years for forcible lewd act are affirmed over claims of error that: 1) the court abused its discretion by imposing a full consecutive sentence under section 667.6, subdivision (c); and 2) the imposition of a consecutive sentence violated of defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/22/2009
• Published 01/22/2009

Judges

• KRIEGLER, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Lynda A. Romero, San Diego, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters and Steven E. Mercer, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.