Supreme Court of California

Conviction for grossly negligent shooting of a firearm is reversed as to three of the ten counts where a the offense of grossly negligent discharge of a firearm is a necessarily included offense of the more stringent requirements of discharge of a firearm at an inhabited dwelling.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/26/2009
• Published 02/26/2009

Judges

• CORRIGAN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Joseph C. Shipp, Oakland, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Mary Jo Graves and Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Janet E. Neely, Lloyd G. Carter, Louis M. Vasquez and Brian Alvarez, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.