California Supreme Court

People v. Goolsby

December 17, 2015

Summary

The court modified its prior opinion to explain that the defendant's claimed double-jeopardy bar did not necessarily follow from the insufficiency of the evidence supporting arson of an inhabited structure. The trial court likely could have amended the information to charge arson of an inhabited structure or inhabited property, because the evidence at the preliminary hearing and trial supported that charge and prejudice from amendment was unlikely. The modification did not change the judgment, and the petition for rehearing was denied.