Supreme Court of California

Penal Code section 12022.53 allows imposition of more than one 25-year-to-life prison term enhancement for a single injury caused by use of a firearm. Remanded for resentencing where defendant fired two shots at a group of five people, but hit and injured only one of them.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/26/2004
• Published 04/26/2004

Judges

• CHIN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Howard C. Cohen, San Diego, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and John L. Dodd, Tustin, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Lora Fox Martin, Gil P. Gonzalez, Matthew Mulford, Gary Brozio and Steven T. Oetting, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.