Supreme Court of California

With regards to a negotiated plea agreement that includes a sentence "lid" limiting the maximum sentence that a trial court may impose, a defendant must obtain a certificate of probable cause to challenge on appeal the trial court's legal authority to impose such a maximum sentence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/05/2006
• Published 01/05/2006

Judges

• KENNARD, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Deborah Prucha, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Sacramento, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Manuel M. Madeiros, State Solicitor General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Mary Jo Graves, Assistant Attorney General, Carlos A. Martinez, Janet E. Neeley, Stephen G. Herndon, Maggy Krell and Rachelle A. Newcomb, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.