P. v. Iseli CA3
Defendant Branden Willie Iseli attacked his great-uncle and great-grandfather with a knife, killing his great-uncle and inflicting life-threatening injuries on his great-grandfather. A jury convicted defendant of attempted murder with premeditation and deliberation, along with elder abuse with respect to his attack on his great-grandfather (Pen. Code, §§ 664/187, subd. (a), 368, subd. (b)(1)), but it could not reach a verdict on a charge of murdering the great-uncle. In a second trial, a jury convicted defendant of first degree premeditated murder of his great-uncle. (§§ 187, subd. (a), 189, subd. (a).) The trial court sentenced defendant to a term of 25 years to life for first degree murder, with a consecutive term of life with the possibility of parole for attempted murder and five years for inflicting great bodily injury on an elder. The trial court imposed and stayed the upper term for elder abuse.
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