Court Opinion

ID: 9722606
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 09:41:37.033491+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:37.786971
License: Public Domain

HERNDON, J.
I concur in the opinion and in the order remanding the cause to the trial court to make the required finding regarding the application of Penal Code section 12022.5. However, in view of the evidence which the trial court expressly accepted as true, the only finding which reasonably could have been made, and which now should be made, is that the defendant used the firearm in the commission of the robbery and that sections 1203 and 12022.5 of the Penal Code are therefore applicable.
*478Further, the decision in People v. Floyd, 71 Cal.2d 879, at pages 883-884 [80 Cal.Rptr. 22, 457 P.2d 862] makes it clear that Penal Code sections 3024 and 12022 are inapplicable and that there should be “an express determination in the judgment as to whether the defendant was armed with a deadly weapon within the meaning of section 1203 of the Penal Code.” (Italics added.) By parity of reasoning the same determination as to the application of subsequently enacted section 12022.5 should appear in the judgment. In other words, Floyd plainly dictates that the judgment should indicate on its face which of these code sections are or are not applicable.
Accordingly, to paraphrase the language employed in the third full paragraph of Floyd on page 884, the judgment in the instant case should provide that at the time of the commission of the instant offense sections 3024 and 12022 of the Penal Code were inapplicable but that defendant was armed with a firearm which he used in the commission of the offense within the meaning of sections 1203 and 12022.5 of the Penal Code. The cause should be remanded to the trial court with directions to make the required findings and the required modification of the judgment.