Court Opinion

ID: 9548408
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:03:00.88878+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:18:54.178519
License: Public Domain

LUCAS, J.
I concur in the judgment. Defendant was properly convicted of both statutory sodomy (two counts) and lewd conduct (two counts) for the commission of sodomy on two young children. As the majority observes, the trial court stayed sentence on the sodomy convictions so that defendant would not be punished twice for the same act. (Pen. Code, § 654.)
*364But I would not issue defendant an advisory opinion on the concededly premature issue as to whether using all these convictions to enhance future sentences would constitute impermissible double punishment. That issue will not arise until defendant has committed, and suffered a conviction for, some future offense for which such an enhancement might be appropriate. What valid purpose is served by assuring defendant that, if he chooses to commit such an offense, his enhanced punishment will not be as severe as he might have feared?
I would simply affirm the judgment.
Respondent’s petition for a rehearing was denied October 2, 1986. Lucas, J., was of the opinion that the petition should be granted.