People v. Sequeira

Opinion

ELKINGTON, J.

Defendant Sequeira was convicted of 11 counts of robbery (Pen. Code, § 211), and 17 counts of false imprisonment effected by violence (Pen. Code, §§ 236,237). As to most if not all of the offenses, he was found to have used a firearm in their commission. (Pen. Code, § 12022.5.) He was also convicted of possession of a concealable firearm by one previously convicted of a felony. (Pen. Code, § 12021.) His base term (see Pen. Code, § 1170, subd. (b)), on one of the robbery convictions, was fixed at six years. Believing Sequeira’s remaining armed robberies to be “violent…