P. v. Shoulders
Defendant Gregory Dwone Shoulders was convicted, in three separate cases, of transportation of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug without a prescription, and inflicting corporal injury on a cohabitant after a previous conviction in violation of Penal Code section 273.5, subdivision (e). Defendant admitted a great bodily injury enhancement, admitted he has served two prior prison terms, and was found to have a prior strike conviction. The trial court denied defendant’s motion to dismiss his prior strike and sentenced him to an aggregate term of 14 years four months in state prison.
On appeal defendant contends, and the People concede, that his sentence must be modified to reduce the consecutive four-year great bodily injury enhancement to one year four months (one-third of the four-year sentence). He also contends the trial court abused its discretion in denying his motion to dismiss the prior strike. We shall modify defendant’s sentence to reflect the one-third term for the great bodily injury enhancement and affirm as modified.
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