Supreme Court of California

The Court of Appeal was mistaken to conclude that a certificate of probable cause was necessary to assert an abuse of sentencing discretion within the maximum term established by a plea agreement, and so erred in dismissing defendant's appeal for lack of a certificate.

Appellate Information

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

Judges

• BAXTER, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Amanda F. Doerrer, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.,  Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner and Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Laura Whitcomb Halgren, Robert M. Foster, Steven T. Oetting, Sabrina Y. Lane Erwin and A. Natasha Cortina, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.