California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Gallardo, 226 Cal.Rptr.3d 379, 4 Cal.5th 120, 407 P.3d 55 (Cal. 2017):
further" to determine the conduct underlying the conviction. ( People v. Guerrero(1988) 44 Cal.3d 343, 355, 243 Cal.Rptr. 688, 748 P.2d 1150.) It is equally settled that the record of conviction to which the trier of fact may look includes the transcript of the preliminary hearing. ( People v. Reed(1996) 13 Cal.4th 217, 220, 52 Cal.Rptr.2d 106, 914 P.2d 184 ( Reed ); see maj. opn., ante, at 226 Cal.Rptr.3d at p. 385, 407 P.3d at p. 60.) The court here reviewed the preliminary hearing transcript and determined that defendant's prior conviction was a serious felony and thus a strike under the "Three Strikes" law. (Maj. opn., ante, at 226 Cal.Rptr.3d at pp. 380381, 382383, 407 P.3d at pp. 5657, 5758.)
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