PEOPLE v. ROUSER

Docket No. C022519.

59 Cal.App.4th 1065 (1997)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. WILLIAM EDWARD ROUSER, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

December 8, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

James Bisnow, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Assistant Attorney General, Margaret Venturi, Thomas H. Beattie and Paul E. O'Connor, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

PUGLIA, P.J.

In this appeal we hold that contemporaneous possession in a state prison of two or more discrete controlled substances (here methamphetamines and heroin) at the same location constitutes but one offense under Penal Code section 4573.6.

A jury convicted defendant, a state prison inmate, of three counts of possession of a controlled substance by a prisoner in violation of Penal Code section 4573.6 (count...

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