Supreme Court of California

A prior conviction of an earlier Penal Code section 288(a) charge, as to which defendant qualified for probation, constituted a qualifying prior conviction to subject defendant to sentencing under the One Strike law, Penal Code section 667.61, for his present offenses.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/29/2003
• Published 05/29/2003

Judges

• GEORGE, C.J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Christopher Blake, under appointment by the Supreme Court, San Diego, for Defendant and Appellant.,  Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Robert M. Foster, Steven T. Oetting and Elizabeth S. Voorhies, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.