California Court of Appeal

Conviction of defendant for sexual offenses against two minors is affirmed where: 1) Penal Code section 784.7 allows prosecution of defendant's sexual offenses in any county where any of the offenses occurred; 2) applying section 784.7 to defendant does not violate the constitutional ban against ex post facto laws; 3) the Los Angeles County offenses were timely prosecuted within one year of the victim's report to the police; 4) juror taint and due process claims are baseless and, in any event, harmless; but 5) defendant's sentence is reversed and remanded where the court was required to impose full, consecutive, determinate terms on two counts of committing forcible lewd acts on a child under 14.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/01/2010
• Published 02/01/2010

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Patrick Morgan Ford, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Pamela Ratner Sobeck and Raymond M. DiGuiseppe, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.