Supreme Court of California

A conviction for oral copulation with a child who is less than 14 years old and more than 10 years younger than the perpetrator under Penal Code 288a(c)(1) is a strike under the Three Strikes law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/29/2001
• Published 03/29/2001

Judges

• CHIN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Donald I. Segerstrom, Jr., under appointment by the Supreme Court, Sonora, for Defendant and Appellant., Daniel E. Lungren and Bill Lockyer, Attorneys General, George Williamson and David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson, Assistant Attorney General, W. Scott Thorpe, Wayne K. Strumpfer and Rachelle A. Newcomb, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.