PEOPLE v. BROOKINS

Docket No. C005011.

215 Cal.App.3d 1297 (1989)

264 Cal. Rptr. 240

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. MELVIN BROOKINS, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

November 21, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

John Doyle for Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Richard B. Iglehart, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Arnold O. Overoye, Assistant Attorney General, Jane N. Kirkland and Jesse Witt, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

SPARKS, Acting P.J.

This is a case in which the defendant's sole challenge is to the application of one of the recidivist statutes. The challenge relates to whether one of his prior offenses satisfies a criterial predicate for the imposition of a life term in prison without possibility of parole for 20 years under Penal Code section 667.7 (subsequent undesignated section references are to this code). Specifically, we must...

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