People v. C.D. (In re C.D.)

*1023Based on his acceleration of a stolen automobile toward a police officer, appellant C.D. was found to have committed two counts of violating Penal Code section 245, subdivision (c),1 which penalizes the assault of a peace officer "with a deadly weapon or instrument, other than a firearm, or by any means likely to produce great bodily injury." We conclude that one of these counts must be reversed because unlike section 245, subdivision (a)(1)-(4), which currently divides aggravated assault not involving a peace officer into four different crimes that may support separate convictions, section…