Filed 5/13/13 P. v. Animashaun CA2/8

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION EIGHT

THE PEOPLE,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

RICHARD J. ANIMASHAUN,

Defendant and Appellant.

 B242996

 (Los Angeles County

 Super. Ct. No. BA355173)

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, 

Monica Bachner, Judge. Affirmed as modified.

Alex Coolman, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and 

Appellant.

Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Assistant Attorney General, 

Lance E. Winters, Assistant Attorney General, and Paul M. Roadarmel, Jr., Deputy 

Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

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Richard Animashaun pleaded guilty to making criminal threats and attempted first 

degree burglary, and admitted one prior strike conviction. (Pen. Code, §§ 422; 664/459; 

and 667, subds. (b)-(i); 1170.12, subds. (a)-(d).)1 We direct the trial court to correct the 

minute order from the sentencing hearing and the abstract of judgment, to conform the 

terms of victim restitution to the court’s orally pronounced terms. As corrected, we 

affirm the judgment. 

FACTS

In May 2009, the People filed an information charging Animashaun with making 

criminal threats, attempted burglary, and vandalism causing damages of $400 or more.2 

(§§ 422; 664/459; 594, subd. (a).) The information further alleged that Animashaun had 

suffered two prior “strike” convictions which also qualified as prior serious felony 

convictions.3 (§§ 667, subds. (b)-(i); 1170.12, subds. (a)-(d); 667, subd. (a)(1).) At a jury 

trial in late 2009, the evidence showed that Animashaun behaved badly after convincing 

himself that a tenant in a neighboring unit at their apartment building had called police on 

Animashaun. In December 2009, a jury returned verdicts finding Animashaun guilty of 

the three charged offenses noted above. The trial court sentenced Animashaun to a total 

aggregate sentence of nine years in the state prison. We thereafter reversed the judgment, 

finding that jurors had engaged in inadvertent misconduct when they used a juror’s laptop 

computer to listen to a CD audio recording of a 911 call which had been admitted at trial, 

and heard both the call which had been admitted at trial, as well as another 911 call which 

had not been admitted. (People v. Animashaun (Oct. 28, 2011, B224530) [nonpub. 

opn.].) 

 

1 All further section references are to the Penal Code. 

2

The information included a count charging Animashaun with dissuading a witness. 

(§ 136.1, subd. (c)(1).) That count was dismissed at trial and is not involved in the 

current appeal. 

3 A conviction for criminal threats in 2007 and a conviction for robbery in 2007.
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On remand, Animashaun pleaded guilty to making criminal threats and attempted 

first degree burglary, and admitted one prior strike conviction. (§§ 422; 664/459; 667, 

subds. (b)-(i); 1170.12, subds. (a)-(d).) The trial court sentenced Animashaun to a total 

aggregate term of six years in state prison. The vandalism count was dismissed with a 

waiver pursuant to People v. Harvey (1979) 25 Cal.3d 754. 

DISCUSSION

Animashaun contends, the People concede, and we agree that the trial court’s 

minute order from the sentencing hearing, and the abstract of judgment, do not conform 

to the court’s oral pronouncements at the sentencing hearing as to victim restitution. 

The minute order and abstract of judgment refer to the tenant who was the victim 

of Animashaun’s threats and attempted burglary. At the sentencing hearing, the trial 

court, the prosecutor and defense counsel had discussed restitution, and it had been 

generally agreed that the tenant had not suffered any monetary loss. Further, the court 

and the attorneys had agreed that the issue of restitution to the landlord who had been the 

victim of the vandalism count potentially remained an issue. The court stated that it 

would retain jurisdiction on the issue of restitution as to the landlord. 

The minute order and abstract of judgment must conform to the trial court’s orally 

pronounced terms regarding restitution. (People v. Mitchell (2001) 26 Cal.4th 181, 185-

186.) For this reason, the minute order and abstract of judgment should not refer to the 

tenant in the context of victim restitution. 

DISPOSITON

The trial court is directed to correct its minute order from the sentencing hearing, 

and the abstract of judgment, to conform restitution to the court’s pronounced terms as to 

victim restitution. As modified, the judgment is affirmed.

BIGELOW, P. J. 

We concur:

RUBIN, J. GRIMES, J.