PEOPLE v. BELCHER

No. F027501.

89 Cal.Rptr.2d 75 (1999)

75 Cal.App.4th 150

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Billy Jack BELCHER, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District.

Review Granted November 23, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geri Lynn Green, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, San Francisco, for Defendant and Appellant.

Daniel E. Lungren and Bill Lockyer, Attorneys General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Assistant Attorney General, Harry Joseph Colombo and W. Scott Thorpe, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


Certified for Partial Publication.*

OPINION

VARTABEDIAN, Acting P.J.

The "One Strike Law," found in Penal Code section 667.61, requires an indeterminate life term when a defendant commits certain forcible sexual crimes in combination with enumerated factors.1 Here, a jury found defendant Billy Jack Belcher guilty of two counts of forcible rape

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