People v. Snow CA3

BACKGROUND

In 2008, the trial court found defendant guilty of first degree burglary with a person present (§ 459 - count 1), making criminal threats (§ 422 - count 2), and vandalism (§ 594, subd. (a) - count 3). In a bifurcated proceeding, the trial court also found true allegations that defendant was previously convicted of two or more serious or violent felonies under the former Three Strikes law and that he served two separate prison terms under section 667.5, subdivision (b). The trial court sentenced defendant to an aggregate term of 31 years to life. For his first degree burglary conviction, the court sentenced defendant to an indeterminate term of 25 years to life under the former Three Strikes law. The court added five years under section 667, subdivision (a), one year under section 667.5, subdivision (b), and imposed, but stayed pursuant to section 654, an additional one-year term under section 667.5, subdivision (b).

2 On defendant’s conviction for making criminal threats, the court imposed a concurrent, upper term of three years in state prison, stayed pursuant to section 654. On defendant’s vandalism conviction, the court imposed another indeterminate term of 25…