P. v. Stanley
A jury found defendant Tyrus Deon Stanley guilty of one count of assault with a deadly weapon, and further found that defendant personally used a deadly weapon, specifically a knife, and inflicted great bodily injury on the victim in that assault. Defendant waived his right to a jury trial on the issue of his prior convictions. In a bifurcated proceeding, the trial court found true the allegations that defendant had suffered a prior conviction that constituted a strike and a serious felony and another prior conviction that resulted in a prison term. At sentencing, the trial court denied defendants motion to strike his prior strike conviction, and sentenced him to 15 years in prison. On appeal, defendant contends that the trial court erred in excluding evidence of certain prior convictions to impeach two of the Peoples witnesses, and that there was insufficient evidence to support the trial courts findings that defendant had suffered a prior strike conviction (Pen. Code, 1170.12, subds. (a)-(d), 667, subds. (b)-(i)) that was also a serious felony (id., 667, subd. (a)) and a prior conviction that resulted in a prison term (id., 667.5, subd. (b)). Court disagree and therefore affirm.
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