IN RE DENNIS B.

Docket No. S.F. 23453.

18 Cal.3d 687 (1976)

557 P.2d 514

135 Cal. Rptr. 82

In re DENNIS B., a Person Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law. JOHN A. DAVIS, as Chief Probation Officer, etc., Plaintiff and Respondent, v. DENNIS B., Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

December 28, 1976


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Layne, Brodie & Germino and C. William Brodie for Defendant and Appellant.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Jack R. Winkler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Edward P. O'Brien, Assistant Attorney General, Robert R. Granucci and Harriet Wiss Hirsch, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

We determine here that absent evidence of timely prosecutorial knowledge of multiple offenses, a person's violation of the Vehicle Code resulting in punishment for a mere infraction does not bar the People from trying him on homicide charges arising out of the same prohibited act.

Defendant Dennis B., a minor, while attempting to change lanes on a highway, drove his automobile so as to collide with a motorcycle...

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