Supreme Court of California

Court of appeals' application of a 20-year sentence enhancement under Penal Code section 12022.53(c) to a defendant convicted of a gang-related crime is affirmed where, because the felony of shooting at an inhabited dwelling was punishable by a life term under section 186.22(b)(4), and it was committed to benefit a criminal street gang, defendant committed a felony punishable by . . . imprisonment in the state prison for life within the meaning of subdivision (a)(17) of section 12022.53.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/31/2009
• Published 08/31/2009

Judges

• KENNARD, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Candace Hale, San Anselmo, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson and Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Mary Jo Graves and Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorneys General, Janet Neeley, Louis M. Vasquez, Brian Alvarez and Kathleen A. McKenna, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.