Supreme Court of California

First degree murder is a violent felony that is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for life, and therefore it is not subject to a 10-year enhancement under Penal Code section 186.22(b)(1)(C).

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/06/2005
• Published 01/06/2005

Judges

• BAXTER, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Joseph Shipp, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Oakland, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Donald E. De Nicola, Margaret E. Maxwell and Jeffrey B. Kahan, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent., David La Bahn;  Steve Cooley, District Attorney (Los Angeles), Patrick D. Moran and Brent Riggs, Deputy District Attorneys, for California District Attorneys Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.