Tag Archives: Abstract of judgment or minute order

Abstracts and Minutes, Sentencing

Case 000753

Posted on by Gary McCurdy

Error and/or relief

Three of the protective orders issued by the trial court under section 136.2 exceeded the court’s authority and should be vacated. There is a clerical error in the defendant’s abstract of judgment that requires correction.

First Holding:

Restraining orders under section 136.2 are authorized only for victims of certain specified offenses including certain domestic violence crimes, sexual offenses like rape, gang-related crimes, or crimes requiring registration as a sex offender. Three of the people for whom a protective order was issued were not victims of the defendant’s crimes, and the trial court lacked jurisdiction to issue those orders.

Authority:

People v. Robertson (2012) 208 Cal.App.4th 965, 996

Second Holding:

Issuance of a restraining order in excess of jurisdiction can be corrected at any time.

Authority:

People v. Ponce (2009) 173 Cal.App.4th 378, 381–382

Third Holding:

The abstract of judgment erroneously states that the punishment on the special circumstance was stayed. It was not stayed and the abstract of judgment must be corrected.

Authority:

People v. Mitchell (2001) 26 Cal.4th 181, 185–188

Abstracts and Minutes, Fines and fees

Case 000751

Posted on by Gary McCurdy

Error and/or relief

The trial court having resentenced the defendant under section 1172.75, the matter is remanded for the trial court to determine the credit for time served and for correction of the abstract of judgment.

First Holding:

When a trial court resentences a defendant on remand, it must credit him with all actual days he spent in custody up to that time, including his time in custody after the original sentencing. Thus, the matter should be remanded for defendant’s custody credits to be recalculated, and the abstract of judgment should be amended accordingly.

Authority:

People v. Buckhalter (2001) 26 Cal.4th 20, 37 [the trial court, having modified defendant’s sentence on remand, was obliged, in its new abstract of judgment, to credit him with all actual days he had spent in custody]

Second Holding:

The section 1202.4(b) restitution fine in the amount of $800 listed on the abstract of judgment filed after the resentencing hearing should be stricken, since the court granted his request to strike all fees and fines, except for direct victim restitution.

(Gary note: The court cited no authority for its order to correct the abstract of judgment. I have listed some of the cases the court could have cited.)

Authority:

People v. Mitchell (2001) 26 Cal.4th 181, 185

People v. Delgado (2008) 43 Cal.4th 1059, 1070

People v. Leon (2020) 8 Cal.5th 831, 855

In re Black (1967) 66 Cal.2d 881, 890

People v. Zackery (2007) 147 Cal.App.4th 380, 385

People v. Farell (2002) 28 Cal.4th 381, 384, fn. 2

Abstracts and Minutes

Case 000744

Posted on by Gary McCurdy

Error and/or relief

The abstracts of judgment are inconsistent with the sentencing court’s oral pronouncement of judgment. We will order the abstract of judgment corrected to reflect the trial court’s imposition and stay of a $300 restitution fine, and its waiver of the $80 court security fee and $60 criminal conviction assessment fee. We will further order the determinate abstract of judgment corrected to reflect that the defendant was convicted by jury (not by plea) of count 2 (arson).

Holding:

The abstract of judgment must be corrected to conform to the oral pronouncement of judgment.

Authority:

People v. Mitchell (2001) 26 Cal.4th 181, 185

Abstracts and Minutes, Fines and fees

Case 000739

Posted on by Gary McCurdy

Error and/or relief

At the resentencing hearing, the trial court imposed a $300 restitution fine under section 1202.4, but because defendant is serving terms of LWOP, the court did not impose a parole revocation restitution fine under section 1202.45. The minute order and abstract of judgment, however, reflect a parole revocation restitution fine was imposed and suspended. They must be corrected.

Holding:

Where there is a discrepancy between the oral pronouncement of judgment and the abstract of judgment, the oral pronouncement controls, and we may correct a clerical error in recording the judgment at any time. Consequently, we will direct the trial court to correct the minute order and abstract of judgment to omit reference to imposition of a parole revocation restitution fine under section 1202.45.

Authority:

People v. Zackery (2007) 147 Cal.App.4th 380, 385

People v. Mitchell (2001) 26 Cal.4th 181, 185

Abstracts and Minutes

Case 000730

Posted on by Gary McCurdy

Error and/or relief

The abstract of judgment misstates the actual sentence imposed and must be corrected.

First Holding:

Initially, the defendant’s aggregate 42-years-to-life sentence consisted of seven years to life for the attempted murder, plus 10 years for the gang enhancement, and 25 years to life for the gun enhancement. In the defendant’s prior appeal, we modified the sentence as follows: the term specified for count 1 is modified to provide for a term of life with possibility of parole. For the gang enhancement, the 10-year term is stricken; instead, the judgment shall provide that defendant shall not be paroled until a minimum of 15 calendar years has been served. We made no change to the 25 to life firearm enhancement.

The abstract of judgment does not reflect the sentence actually imposed. For clarity, the amended abstract of judgment should be modified as follows: the term specified for attempted premeditated murder on count 1 is modified to provide for a term of life with the possibility of parole. For the gang enhancement under section 186.22(b)(1)(C), the 10-year term is stricken, and defendant shall not be paroled until a minimum of 15 years has been served. For the gun enhancement in violation of section 12022.53(d), the term is 25 years to life. Defendant’s aggregate sentence is 32 years to life with parole eligibility after 40 years.

Authority:

People v. Mitchell (2001) 26 Cal.4th 181, 185, 188 [courts may correct clerical errors at any time, and may order the correction of abstracts of judgment that do not accurately reflect the sentence imposed]