Criminal
Jul. 24, 2020
Firearm enhancements weren't proven, despite jury instructions, high court says
The state high court reversed a 125-year sentence for five enhancements the judge told the jurors they could assume had been proven, though they were never charged.
The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a defendant was denied due process in a 2011 murder trial because jurors were instructed to consider several firearm enhancement allegations that the prosecution never charged.
In a 28-page unanimous ruling authored by Justice Leondra R. Kruger, the high court annulled the 125-years-to-life sentence Vernon Anderson was given by San Francisco Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo for...
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