California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Nguyen, 204 Cal.App.3d 181, 251 Cal.Rptr. 40 (Cal. App. 1988):
The court also erred in imposing sentences on multiple crime-bail-crime enhancements pursuant to Penal Code section 12022.1. The propriety of multiple enhancements of this sort for offenses committed on a single occasion was resolved in People v. Tassell (1984) 36 Cal.3d 77, 201 Cal.Rptr. 567, 679 P.2d 1: "Section 1170.1 refers to two kinds of enhancements: (1) those which go to the nature of the offender; and (2) those which go to the nature of the offense. Enhancements for prior convictions--[204 Cal.App.3d 196] authorized by sections 667.5, 667.6 and 12022.1--are of the first sort. The second kind of enhancements--those which arise from the circumstances of the crime--are typified by sections 12022.5 and 12022.7: was a firearm used or
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