(a)Any person who personally inflicts great bodily injury on any person other than an accomplice in the commission of a felony or attempted felony shall be punished by an additional and consecutive term of imprisonment in the state prison for three years.
(b)Any person who personally inflicts great bodily injury on any person other than an accomplice in the commission of a felony or attempted felony which causes the victim to become comatose due to brain injury or to suffer paralysis of a permanent nature shall be punished by an additional and consecutive term of imprisonment in the state prison for five years. As used in this subdivision, “paralysis” means a major or complete loss of motor function resulting from injury to the nervous system or to a muscular
mechanism.
(c)Any person who personally inflicts great bodily injury on a person who is 70 years of age or older, other than an accomplice, in the commission of a felony or attempted felony shall be punished by an additional and consecutive term of imprisonment in the state prison for five years.
(d)Any person who personally inflicts great bodily injury on a child under the age of five years in the commission of a felony or attempted felony shall be punished by an additional and consecutive term of imprisonment in the state prison for four, five, or six years.
(e)Any person who personally inflicts great bodily injury under circumstances involving domestic violence in the commission of a felony or attempted felony shall be punished by an additional and consecutive term of imprisonment in the state prison for three,
four, or five years. As used in this subdivision, “domestic violence” has the meaning provided in subdivision (b) of Section 13700.
(f)(1)As used in this section, “great bodily injury” means a significant or substantial physical injury.
(2)As used in this section, a person who sells, furnishes, administers, or gives away a controlled substance is deemed to have personally inflicted great bodily injury when the person to whom the substance was sold, furnished, administered, or given suffers a significant or substantial physical injury from using the substance.
(g)This section shall not apply to murder or manslaughter or a violation of Section 451 or 452. Subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d) shall not apply if infliction of great bodily injury is an element of the offense.
(h)The court shall impose the additional terms of imprisonment under subdivision (a), (b), (c), or (d), but may not impose more than one of those terms for the same offense.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
599
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181 in the last 5 years), 1977–2026 · leading case:
People v. Cross, 190 P.3d 706 (Cal. 2008).
People v. Cross, 190 P.3d 706 (Cal. 2008).
· cites it 4× “" (Pen. Code, § 12022.7, subd. (a), italics added.”
People v. Conley, 373 P.3d 435 (Cal. 2016).
· cites it 2× “)4 Thus, much as in the case of the ―armed with a firearm‖ factor, if the Reform Act version of the Three Strikes law applied retroactively to a defendant who was 4 Penal Code section 12022.7 at one time included a specific intent requirement (see People v.”
People v. Wolcott, 665 P.2d 520 (Cal. 1983).
· cites it 4× “5) and three years for intentional infliction of great bodily injury (Pen. Code, § 12022.7). The court imposed a consecutive sentence of one year (one-third of the middle term) for the robbery of Stennett, and concurrent sentences on the other counts.”
People v. Escobar, 837 P.2d 1100 (Cal. 1992).
· cites it 4× “I Penal Code section 12022.7 provides in its entirety as follows.”
People v. Parrish, 170 Cal. App. 3d 336 (Cal. Ct. App. 1985).
· cites it 6× “He was sentenced to the upper term of four years on the section 245, subdivision (a), conviction, with a three-year enhancement (Pen. Code, § 12022.7). *341 Appellant makes two contentions: (1) that assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury with a great bodily…”
People v. Bland, 48 P.3d 1107 (Cal. 2002).
· cites it 2× “The statute states nothing else that defendant must personally do. Proximately causing and personally inflicting harm are two different things.”
People v. Millard, 175 Cal. App. 4th 7 (Cal. Ct. App. 2009).
· cites it 2× “The information also alleged that in committing each offense Millard personally inflicted great bodily injury on Payne (Pen. Code, § 12022.7, subd. (a)). During Millard’s jury trial, Payne, Mondragon, Mancini and Suarez testified as described above.”
People v. Greg F., 283 P.3d 1160 (Cal. 2012).
· cites it 2× “(a)(1)), had personally inflicted great bodily injury (Pen. Code, § 12022.7, subd. (a)), and had acted for the benefit of a criminal street gang (Pen.”
People v. Martinez, 226 Cal. App. 4th 1169 (Cal. Ct. App. 2014).
· cites it 3× “By way of an information filed on December 20, 2011, the Monterey County District Attorney charged Gabriel Antonio Martinez (appellant) with one count of murder (Pen. Code, § 12022.7; count one, victim Lisa Groveman), one count of involuntary manslaughter (Pen.”
Cooper v. Brown, 510 F.3d 870 (9th Cir. 2007).
· cites it 2× “) The jury found true an allegation of the special circumstance of multiple murders, (Cal.”
People v. Falsetta, 986 P.2d 182 (Cal. 1999).
· cites it 2× “Code, § 207), with sentence enhancements for inflicting great bodily injury (Pen.Code, §§ 12022.7, 12022.8). Sentencing defendant under the "Three Strikes" law (Pen.”
People v. Jaramillo, 98 Cal. App. 3d 830 (Cal. Ct. App. 1979).
· cites it 4× “The court further found she committed great bodily injury as to her daughter Sheri Banuelos (Pen. Code, § 12022.7) but did not commit great bodily injury as to her other daughter Sonia Banuelos.”
— Cal. Penal Code § 12022.7(a) — 13 cases
— Cal. Penal Code § 12022.7(b) — 2 cases
— Cal. Penal Code § 12022.7(c) — 1 case
— Cal. Penal Code § 12022.7(d) — 2 cases
— Cal. Penal Code § 12022.7(e) — 6 cases
— Cal. Penal Code § 12022.7(f) — 1 case
— Cal. Penal Code § 12022.7(g) — 1 case
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