Supreme Court of California

The offense of continuous sexual abuse of a child under Penal Code section 288.5, and specific instances of sexual offenses pertaining to the same victim over the same period of time, may only be charged in the alternative, thus multiple convictions are reversed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/17/2002
• Published 06/17/2002

Judges

• WERDEGAR, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Katharine Eileen Greenebaum, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Los Angeles, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner and Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Carol Wendelin Pollack, Mark E. Turchin and Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorneys General, Scott A. Taryle, Sanjay T. Kumar, David C. Cook and Thien Huong Tran, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.