People v. Baca
California Court of Appeal
[Opinion certified for partial publication.*]
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
EPSTEIN, J.
Dennis Baca appeals from his conviction in a “three strikes” case. In the published part of this opinion, we join other California courts in rejecting the claim that a defendant is entitled to have the jury instructed on the doctrine of nullification. In the unpublished portion of this opinion, we discuss appellant's arguments that the trial court abused its discretion by not reducing the present conviction to a misdemeanor and in not striking a prior conviction; that the sentence amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, cruel or unusual punishment, or both; that the trial…
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