Court Opinion

ID: 9630876
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 10:23:19.417829+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:07:45.546266
License: Public Domain

KENNARD, J., Concurring.
 I agree with the plurality opinion that under In re Estrada (1965) 63 Cal.2d 740 [48 *799Cal.Rptr. 172, 408 P.2d 948] and In re Kirk (1965) 63 Cal.2d 761 [48 Cal.Rptr. 186, 408 P.2d 962], the 1992 amendment to Penal Code section 12022.6 is ameliorative and should be retroactively applied to anyone (like the defendant in this case) whose conviction was not final when the amendment became operative. I also agree with the analysis that leads the plurality to this conclusion, with the following exception.
The plurality opinion attempts to distinguish this court’s recent decision in In re Pedro T. (1994) 8 Cal.4th 1041 [36 Cal.Rptr.2d 74, 884 P.2d 1022] from both this case and In re Estrada, supra, 63 Cal.2d 740. (Plur. opn., ante, at pp. 790-791, 793-794, 796.) That attempt is unpersuasive. As Justice Arabian explained in his dissenting opinion in Pedro T., which I joined, Pedro T. purported to apply the principles enunciated in Estrada, but reached a result at odds with those principles. (In re Pedro T., supra, 8 Cal.4th at pp. 1053-1059 (dis. opn. of Arabian, J.).) Its reasoning is inconsistent both with Estrada and with this case.
The members of this court unanimously agree that In re Estrada, supra, 63 Cal.2d 740, is still good law, notwithstanding In re Pedro T, supra, 8 Cal.4th 1041. (Plur. opn., ante, at p. 797; dis. opn., post, at this page.) Because the plurality opinion here, unlike the majority in Pedro T., has correctly applied Estrada’s principles to the facts of this case, I concur in its result.
Mosk, J., concurred.