SERIES 3100 ENHANCEMENTS AND SENTENCING FACTORS
F 3161 Great Bodily Injury: Causing Victim to Become Comatose Or Paralyzed (PC 12022.7(b))
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F 3161 Notes
F 3161 Note 1 Great Bodily Injury Resulting In Coma
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F 3161 NOTES
F 3161 Note 1 Great Bodily Injury Resulting In Coma
The phrase “of a permanent nature” in PC 12022.7(b) refers to paralysis, not to injuries causing the victim to become comatose. (People v. Tokash (2000) 79 CA4th 1373, 1378 [victim’s coma chemically induced to prevent brain swelling]; see also People v. Cabral UNPUB’D (2008, G038431) 2008 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 4257 [GBI applied when victim was in a semi-comatose state].)
CALJIC NOTE: See FORECITE F 17.20 n9.