Filed 11/19/20 In re Bertram CA4/3

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION THREE

In re TIMOTHY K. BERTRAM

 on Habeas Corpus.

 G059404

 (Super. Ct. No. 15HF0067)

 O P I N I O N

Original proceedings; petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Petition granted 

with directions. 

Petitioner Timothy K. Bertram, in pro. per.

Todd L. Spitzer Attorney General, and George A. Turner, Deputy Attorney 

General for Respondent.

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THE COURT:*

In December of 2019, petitioner Timothy K. Bertram pled guilty to 13

felony counts of second-degree burglary in Orange County Superior Court case No. 

15HF0067. (Pen. Code §§459, 460, subd. (b)).

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Pursuant to the plea agreement the court struck a strike prior and six prison 

priors for purposes of sentencing only. The court sentenced petitioner to three years on 

count 1, with concurrent sentences on the remaining counts, with credit for 178 days 

served. The court also ordered that petitioner’s sentence be served at ‘“any penal 

institution,”’ concurrently with two other cases previously imposed by Los Angeles 

County, and for which petitioner was currently serving 12 years in state prison. 

Despite the court’s ruling, a mistake was made in the abstract of judgment. 

This mistake incorrectly states that petitioner was sentenced to county jail pursuant to 

section 1170, subdivision (h). According to petitioner, this mistake has resulted in a 

“time server hold” being placed against him. This hold could operate to send him back to 

Orange County jail after he is released from prison, despite the terms of his sentence 

which mandates that he is to serve a prison term only. 

Section 669 subdivision (d), provides in effect, that when a court imposes a 

concurrent term of imprisonment and imprisonment for one of the crimes is required to 

be served in state prison, the term for all crimes shall be served in state prison, even if the 

term for any other offense specifies imprisonment in a county jail pursuant to section 

1170 subdivision (h). Here, the court acknowledged at petitioner’s sentencing hearing 

that this case, “[I]t’s not 1170(h).” 

The Attorney General concedes that there exists an error in the abstract of 

judgment. The Attorney General does not oppose the granting of relief on the foregoing 

* Before, O’Leary, P.J., Ikola, J., and Thompson, J.

1 All further statutory references are to the Penal Code.
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claim and has waived any issuance of an order to show cause. (People v. Romero (1994) 

8 Cal.4th 728, 740, fn.7.)

Accordingly, the superior court is directed to amend the abstract of 

judgment to delete that part of the abstract indicating that petitioner is sentenced to 

county jail per section 1170 subdivision (h), and to send a certified copy of the amended 

abstract to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. This decision 

shall be final as to this court 10 days after its filing. (Cal.Rules of Court, rule 

8.387(b)(3)(A).)