P. v. Bowden CA4/1
Defendant Nicholas Antwone Bowden led deputies on a late night, high-speed chase down an interstate highway and surface streets with four young children in the backseat and an unsecured firearm under the front passenger seat. A jury convicted him of four counts of felony child endangerment, willful evasion of a peace officer, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. At sentencing, the trial court imposed an upper term on the principal child endangerment count, and it ran the sentences on all five subordinate counts consecutively.
Bowden argues the court abused its discretion in imposing consecutive sentences on the four child endangerment convictions. He contends concurrent terms were required because those convictions all stemmed from the identical course of conduct during the high-speed chase.
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