Court Opinion

ID: 9718803
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 07:34:11.998468+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:02.535602
License: Public Domain

WORK, J.
I concur in the majority opinion except for sections III and VI in which I concur in the result.
While I concur that the sentencing court could properly impose consecutive sentences for the two separate forcible sex acts committed on Sanae during the initial episode of sexual abuse, and also for the three separate acts committed upon her during the second later episode, it is because the court sentenced them pursuant to section 667, subdivision (c). Further, I agree there is evidentiary support for the implicit finding Bishop’s act of leaving the girls after his first series of crimes was sufficient to mandate those completed crimes be sentenced consecutively to those committed after he returned under section 667, subdivision (d). I do not concur in the remaining discussion as holding in section III because, frankly, I disagree with its application to these facts.