California Court of Appeal

In this case, defendant was convicted for first degree murder, attempted murder, attempted robbery, burglary, false imprisonment by violence, assault with a firearm, shooting at an inhabited dwelling, possession of a firearm by a felon. He was thereafter sentenced to nine consecutive life terms, and each term was tripled pursuant to the Three Strikes law. The judgment is reversed as to three of defendant’s four convictions for firearm possession and modified to reflect a single life sentence without parole for each first degree murder conviction, where: 1) the evidence does not support multiple convictions for firearm possession based on defendant’s possession of the same gun on different days; and 2) the Three Strikes law does not provide for tripling sentences of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/15/2014
• Published 12/16/2014

Judges

• McConnell

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel