P. v. Robinson
During August, September and October 2004, David L. Robinson (dubbed the Dreadlocks Bandit by at least one local newspaper) committed almost two dozen bank robberies in Los Angeles County. On each occasion, Robinson either passed a note to a teller or simply demanded money, threatened to kill the teller, and said he had a gun or held his hand in a pocket to suggest he had a weapon. Following his arrest on October 30, he admitted during a videotaped interview that he had robbed an unknown number of banks to obtain money to buy crack. Robinson was tried and convicted of 20 counts of robbery and two counts of attempted robbery, and he admitted he had suffered six prior serious felony convictions (all for robbery), each of which qualified as a strike. (Pen. Code, 211, 664, 667, subds. (a), (b)-(i).) He was sentenced to state prison for a determinate term of 660 years to be followed by 22 indeterminate terms of 25 years to life (or 550 years to life). Robinson appeals, challenging only one of his robbery convictions. Court affirm.
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