PEOPLE v. NEELY

No. B204851.

176 Cal.App.4th 787 (2009)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JALIEL RASHAD NEELY, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Six.

August 13, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lynda A. Romero, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Jason Tran and Dana M. Ali, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

PERREN, J.

"Do the crime, do the time," is a bedrock principle of criminal law; straightforward, simple, and concise. A defendant should know the consequences likely to flow from committing a crime. Likewise, the prosecutor, defense counsel and sentencing judge should know the length of the sentence and the rules for its determination. But, often they do not.

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