California Court of Appeal

Conviction for robbery is affirmed where the trial court did not err in not instructing the jury on a lesser included offense, as a purse snatch is a robbery and there is no substantial evidence that what occurred was anything less.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/08/2009
• Published 04/08/2009

Judges

• EPSTEIN, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jeanine G. Strong, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Carmel, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Linda C. Johnson and Robert David Breton, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.