Supreme Court of California

A sentence for multiple felony offenses, enhanced under the "Three Strikes" law, is affirmed where: 1) the evidence strongly supported an inference that "armed bank robbery- and "kidnapping" notations on a 1976 federal judgment form were intended to describe a conviction for conduct which, under California law, constitutes the serious felony of bank robbery; and 2) thus, there was a sufficient evidentiary basis for a finding that the prior conviction at issue was for a "serious felony" for enhancement purposes.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/29/2008
• Published 05/29/2008

Judges

• BAXTER, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Scott Conklin, Redding, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and John Hardesty, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Manuel M. Medeiros, State Solicitor General, Robert R. Anderson and Mary Jo Graves, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Mathew K. Chan, Virna L. DePaul, Janet E. Neeley, Stephen G. Herndon and Rachelle A. Newcomb, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.