Lewis

People v. Lewis

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74 Cal. App. 4th 662·88 Cal. Rptr. 2d 231
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaAugust 25, 1999A083095California4,366 words

Opinion

Opinion

Certified for Partial Publication. [*]

POCHÉ, J.

A jury found defendant Perro Peter Lewis guilty of kidnapping for robbery (Pen.Code, § 209, subd. (b)(1)), five counts of robbery (Pen.Code, § 211), and five counts of vehicle theft (Veh.Code, § 10851); the jury also found true half a dozen weapon use enhancement allegations (Pen.Code, § 12022). After defendant admitted two prior serious felony convictions, the trial court sentenced him to state prison for an indeterminate sentence of life and a consecutive determinate sentence of 14 years.

This is defendant's second appeal. His first resulted in an unusual reversal. We concluded that a lost transcript of some of the proceedings conducted on a suppression motion required other contentions in effect to be held in abeyance until this problem was resolved. We therefore remanded the cause to the trial court in order to provide it an opportunity to make good that omission. ( People v. Lewis (June 17, 1997), A073849 [nonpub. opn.].) Pursuant to our remittitur, the trial court in essence conducted a rerun of testimony covered by the missing transcript. It then again denied defendant's suppression motion and reinstated the judgment.…

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