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PEOPLE v. CASILLAS

No. F034666.

111 Cal.Rptr.2d 651 (2001)

92 Cal.App.4th 171

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Casimero Carlos CASILLAS, Defendant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District.

September 10, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Assistant Attorney General, Stan Cross and Patrick J. Whalen, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Shama H. Mesiwala, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Respondent.

OPINION

GOMES, J.*

The criminal law often punishes more harshly an accused who already has a criminal conviction than an accused who has none. The three strikes law is one example. (Pen.Code, §§ 667, subds.(b)-(i), 1170.12, subds. (b)-(e).) Petty theft with a prior is another. (Pen.Code, § 666.) Vehicle Code sections 23152 and 23550 constitute yet another.1 Normally punishable as a...

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