People v. Good CA4/2

I. INTRODUCTION

Defendant and appellant, Gregory Lance Good (Good), was charged in two

separate cases with assault-related offenses occurring on two occasions. In one case, he

was charged with assaulting three victims with a firearm and negligently discharging a

firearm, on June 20, 2012. In a second case, he was charged with assaulting a firefighter

by means of force likely to product great bodily injury and interfering with a firefighter in

the performance of his duties, on August 14, 2012. The court granted the People’s

motion to consolidate the cases, and an amended information was filed alleging the same

charges. (Pen. Code, §§ 245, subd. (a)(2) (counts 1, 2, & 3), 246.3 (count 4), 245, subd.

(c) (count 5), 148.2, cl. (1) (count 6).)1 It was further alleged, as it had been originally,

that Good personally used a firearm in counts 1 through 3, and that counts 1 through

were serious felonies. (§§ 667, 1192.7, subd. (c)(8), 12022.5, subd. (a).)

A jury found Good guilty of the lesser offense of simple assault (§ 240) in counts

1, 2, and 3, and guilty as charged in counts 4, 5, and 6. A personal use enhancement was

found true in count 4, even though it was not…