What is the range of crime-bail-crime enhancements pursuant to section 1170.1 of the California Penal Code?

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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