P. v. Thomas CA4/1
A grand jury indicted defendant Lamar Thomas, a prison inmate, and codefendant Melissa Ann Gibson on multiple charges including possession of heroin in a state prison (Pen. Code, § 4573.6, count 5) and bringing, and/or assisting in bringing, heroin into a state prison (§ 4573, subd. (a), count 6). The indictment further alleged with respect to both counts that defendant had eight prior serious or violent felony convictions.
The jury convicted defendant of both counts. The court in a bifurcated proceeding subsequently found beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant had committed each of the eight prior serious or violent offenses. The court sentenced defendant to the upper term of four years, doubled for the strike priors, for a total term of eight years to run consecutive to the sentence defendant already was serving.
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