People v. Elder CA1/5

I. BACKGROUND

Elder’s Most Recent Criminal Conviction and Sentence1 “On June 20, 2002, [Elder] was detained by Fairfield Police Officer David Fullen on Interstate 80 eastbound for speeding and tailgating. [Elder] was on parole and did not have a driver’s license. Officer Fullen called for backup. After the officer informed [Elder] that they were going to have to wait for about ten minutes, [Elder] put his car in reverse and slammed into the police car. [Elder] then made a U-turn and traveled the wrong way on a freeway offramp and then drove on the shoulder of the freeway headed in the opposite direction of traffic. [Elder] collided with a car traveling on the freeway, 1 Elder’s July 10, 2014 request that we take judicial notice of the record in his prior appeal No. A112664 is granted.

1 causing serious injury to the driver of the other car.” (People v. Elder (Oct. 12, 2007, A112644) [nonpub. opn.].) Elder was charged by information with assault on a police officer (Pen. Code, § 245, subd. (c)2; Count I), leaving the scene of an accident (Veh. Code, § 20001, subd. (a); Count II), driving the wrong way on a divided highway causing injury (Veh. Code, § 21651, subds. (b), (c);…