Keeton

Velma Lee Keeton limits her appeal to two issues, both concerning the trial court’s imposition of the middle term of four years for an enhancement for being personally armed with a firearm (Pen. Code, § 12022, subd. (c)) during the commission of the offense of transporting methamphetamine.

The Facts

In the course of conducting searches on October 29, 1990, of Keeton’s pickup truck, a duffel bag she was carrying in her truck, and her residence, police discovered 208.26 grams of a substance containing methamphetamine, narcotics packaging materials, a list with the names of persons known to the police to be narcotics dealers, “pay and owe” records, and many other items frequently associated with narcotics dealing and use. Inside the duffel bag police found a .25-caliber semiautomatic handgun with one round of ammunition in the chamber and five rounds in the magazine. A conservative estimate of the value of the substance containing methamphetamine was $20,800.

The searches started when an officer stopped Keeton in her truck. She asked to proceed a short distance to a convenience store so she could use the restroom. When she began to walk toward the store carrying her…