PEOPLE v. TOWNSEND

Docket No. H015880.

62 Cal.App.4th 1390 (1998)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. CURTIS RONALD TOWNSEND, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Sixth District.

April 10, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Robert Spertus, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass, Assistant Attorney General, Ronald S. Matthias and Richard Rochman, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

ELIA, J.

At issue in this appeal is the scope of Health and Safety Code section 11353.6, subdivision (b), which creates a sentence enhancement applicable to certain narcotics offenses committed within 1,000 feet of a school.1 In its instructions to the jury, the trial court altered the language of this provision. Appellant Curtis Ronald Townsend contends that the court's instruction gave the jury...

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