Filed 6/21/16

CERTIFIED FOR PARTIAL PUBLICATION

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION FIVE

THE PEOPLE,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

ALFONSO PUERTO,

Defendant and Appellant.

 B263411

 (Los Angeles County

 Super. Ct. No. BA429371)

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

Norm Shapiro, Judge. Affirmed as modified.

Pamela J. Voich, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and 

Appellant.

Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney 

General, Lance E. Winters, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Steven D. Matthews, 

Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Corey J. Robins, Deputy Attorney General, for 

Plaintiff and Respondent.

 

 Pursuant to California Rules of Court, rules 8.1105(b) and 8.1110, only the first 

and second full paragraphs on page 2, part II of the Discussion, and the Disposition are 

certified for publication.
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A jury convicted defendant and appellant Alfonso Puerto of criminal threats (Pen. 

Code, § 422, subd. (a)1) and battery (§ 242), and found true a criminal street gang 

allegation applied to both offenses (§§ 186.22, subd. (b)(1)(B) & 186.22, subd. (d)). The 

trial court found true the allegation that defendant had a prior felony conviction within 

the meaning of the “Three Strikes” law (§§ 667, subds. (a)-(d) & 1170.12, subds. (b)-(i))

and four prior felonies within the meaning of section 667.5, subdivision (b). Defendant 

was sentenced to state prison for 11 years and awarded 306 days of sentence credit 

consisting of 153 days of actual custody and 153 days of conduct credit. 

Defendant contends insufficient evidence supports the jury’s criminal street gang 

allegation findings, the prosecution did not plead or prove the prior strike conviction, and 

the trial court erred in calculating his award of sentence credit. We affirm the criminal 

street gang allegation and prior strike conviction findings, and order the minute order for 

defendant’s sentencing hearing and the abstract of judgment modified to reflect 416 days 

of sentence credit consisting of 208 days of actual custody and 208 days of conduct 

credit.

BACKGROUND

I. Prosecution Case

About 9:30 p.m., on September 13, 2014, Brad Varela walked his mother, Fany 

Mayorga, home from work. When they were in the area of Sixth and Union Streets, they 

encountered defendant and another man. Defendant and his companion spoke to one 

another. Defendant said Varela was a “gangster” and identified Varela’s alleged gang. 

Varela said he did not “gangbang.” Defendant’s companion asked Varela, “You know 

what hood is this?” Varela responded, “Yes.” He asked Varela, “Where are you from?” 

Varela understood the inquiry to be gang-related. Varela responded he was from 

“nowhere.” Defendant told his companion to hit Varela because Varela was from a gang. 

 

1 All statutory citations are to the Penal Code unless otherwise noted.
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Defendant’s companion complied, punching Varela in the mouth and causing Varela to 

fall to the ground. 

Mayorga said, “Leave or we’re going to call the cops.” Defendant’s companion 

left. Defendant said, “Go ahead and call the police, they are not going to do anything.” 

He also said, “This is my hood.” Varela and Mayorga went to the police station and 

reported the incident. 

The prosecution based a battery charge on the September 13, 2014, incident. The 

jury acquitted defendant of that charge. 

The next day, September 14, 2014, defendant approached Varela on the street. 

Defendant accused Varela of being a “claimer” and said he was going to stab Varela. He 

said if Varela kept “walking around in his ’hood and everything that he was going to 

bring his homeboys to come and like, you know, like f [him] up.” Defendant was going 

to have someone stab Varela, and have his homeboys “really beat [him] up.” Defendant 

said, “This is my ’hood,” and he did not want Varela in his “’hood” any longer. 

Defendant said he was from the “Rockwood 13” (Rockwood) gang and punched Varela 

in the face. Varela went to his mother’s place of employment, and she accompanied him 

to the police station. Defendant was later arrested. Defendant’s threats caused Varela to 

be afraid, and he did not leave his home for weeks. 

Los Angeles Police Department Officer Brian Hegemier testified as the 

prosecution’s expert on the Rockwood gang. He testified the area of Sixth and Union 

Streets fell into Rockwood’s territory. Defendant was an admitted Rockwood gang 

member. 

Hegemier explained that a “claimer” was a “wanna-be”—a person who was not,

but claimed to be, a member of a gang. The consequences of falsely claiming to be a 

Rockwood gang member included telling the “claimer” to stop, committing battery on the 

claimer, “going after” family members, threats to the “claimer” or his family members, 

and the infliction of great bodily injury. 

According to Hegemier, to increase the chances a gang could commit crimes 

within its territory without getting caught, it was important for the gang to instill fear in,
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and to intimidate, the community. Thus, it was important for the Rockwood gang to 

convey to the community that the members of its gang could hurt them without getting 

into trouble. Committing criminal threats and battery against a specific person benefited 

the Rockwood gang because it “broadcast[ed] to citizens and victims that these specific 

gang members of this gang are relentless in controlling a specific territory, and they—by 

committing such bolsterous (sic) acts of violence, it shows to these victims that they are 

willing to carry through with these threats.” 

Hegemier testified a gang member builds a reputation within his gang by 

committing crimes. The more violent the crime, the more clout the gang member earns

within the gang. A gang member’s reputation is also enhanced by making criminal 

threats. 

The prosecutor stated hypothetical sets of facts for Hegemier based on Varela’s

September 14, 2014, encounter with defendant, and asked if the battery and “the words 

uttered” were for the benefit of or in association with the Rockwood criminal street gang. 

Hegemier responded, “Yes.” He testified, “I believe it . . . benefits the Rockwood gang, 

based on the fact that these individuals are relentless in controlling a specific area through 

these various acts of crime. [¶] Criminal threats is a crime that is committed on a more 

regular basis within these neighborhoods to show these victims and rival gang members 

that they are, you know, willing to commit these specific crimes, to continue to have that 

continuous atmosphere of fear and intimidation within the community.” He further 

testified that fear and intimidation in the community allowed Rockwood to commit other 

crimes. 

II. Defense Case

Bill Sanders, Ph.D., a professor of criminal justice at California State University, 

Los Angeles, testified as the defense expert on gangs. In preparing for his testimony, 

among other things, he reviewed the case file and interviewed defendant. He opined 

defendant was not an active member of a criminal street gang because defendant was 44 
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years old, had not lived in the Rockwood gang’s territory for about 20 years, had been in 

and out of prison and jail, and was homeless when he was arrested. 

Sanders had not done any research about the Rockwood gang and had not 

interviewed any Rockwood gang members. He did not know the gang’s territory, how 

many members were in the gang, the names of any members, or the names of any of the 

gang’s cliques. If defendant said, “This is Rockwood,” “I’m going to stab you,” and 

“things of that nature,” “it can be considered” to have been said for the benefit of the 

gang. 

DISCUSSION

I. The Jury’s Gang Allegation Findings

Defendant argues insufficient evidence supports the jury’s gang allegation 

findings.2 He contends the evidence fails to show either that he acted for the benefit of or 

in association with a gang, or that he acted with the intent to promote the criminal 

activities of a gang. Sufficient evidence supports the findings.

A. Standard of Review

“‘When considering a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence to support a 

conviction, we review the entire record in the light most favorable to the judgment to 

determine whether it contains substantial evidence—that is, evidence that is reasonable, 

credible, and of solid value—from which a reasonable trier of fact could find the 

defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.’ (People v. Lindberg (2008) 45 Cal.4th 1, 

27 [82 Cal.Rptr.3d 323, 190 P.3d 664].) We determine ‘whether, after viewing the 

evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could 

 

2 Defendant states the gang allegation findings were under section 186.22, 

subdivision (b)(1)(B) as to both offenses. Instead, as noted above, the jury found true the 

gang allegation as to the criminal threats offense under subdivision (b)(1)(B) of section 

186.22, and as to the battery offense under subdivision (d) of section 186.22. The 

substantive differences between the subdivisions are not relevant to our evidentiary 

aanalysis.
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have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.’ (Jackson v. 

Virginia (1979) 443 U.S. 307, 319 [61 L.Ed.2d 560, 99 S.Ct. 2781].) In so doing, a 

reviewing court ‘presumes in support of the judgment the existence of every fact the trier 

could reasonably deduce from the evidence.’ (People v. Kraft (2000) 23 Cal.4th 978, 

1053 [99 Cal.Rptr.2d 1, 5 P.3d 68].)” (People v. Edwards (2013) 57 Cal.4th 658, 715.) 

“A reversal for insufficient evidence ‘is unwarranted unless it appears “that upon no 

hypothesis whatever is there sufficient substantial evidence to support”’ the jury’s 

verdict. [Citation.]” (People v. Zamudio (2008) 43 Cal.4th 327, 357.) We review a 

claim of insufficient evidence to support a gang allegation finding under the same 

standard of review. (People v. Villalobos (2006) 145 Cal.App.4th 310, 321-322.)

B. Application of Relevant Principles

Both subdivision (b)(1)(B) and subdivision (d) of section 186.22 apply to criminal 

offenses “committed for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with any 

criminal street gang, with the specific intent to promote, further, or assist in any criminal 

conduct by gang members.” “‘Expert opinion that particular criminal conduct benefited a 

gang’ is not only permissible but can be sufficient to support the Penal Code section 

186.22, subdivision (b)(1), gang enhancement. [Citation.]” (People v. Vang (2011) 52 

Cal.4th 1038, 1048; People v. Albillar (2010) 51 Cal.4th 47, 63 [“Expert opinion that 

particular criminal conduct benefited a gang by enhancing its reputation for viciousness 

can be sufficient to raise the inference that the conduct was ‘committed for the benefit of 

. . . a[ ] criminal street gang’ within the meaning of section 186.22(b)(1)”].)

Defendant contends insufficient evidence supports the jury’s finding that he 

committed the criminal threats and battery for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in 

association with the Rockwood gang. The evidence shows defendant, an admitted 

member of the Rockwood gang, approached Varela on September 14, 2014, and accused 

him of being a “claimer”—i.e., a person falsely claiming to be a member of a gang. 

Defendant threatened to stab Varela or have someone else stab him. He further 

threatened to have his “homeboys” beat Varela. Defendant announced he was a member 
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of the Rockwood gang, stated that the area was his “’hood,” and indicated he did not 

want Varela in his “’hood.” Defendant then punched Varela in the face. Hegemier

explained that to increase the chances, the Rockwood gang could commit crimes within 

its territory without getting caught, it was important for the gang to instill fear in, and to 

intimidate, members of the community by conveying to them that gang members could 

hurt them without getting into trouble. According to Hegemier, defendant’s offenses 

benefited the Rockwood gang because such crimes instilled fear in and intimidated the 

community thus allowing the gang to control its claimed territory and commit crimes. 

This evidence is sufficient to support the jury’s finding defendant committed the offenses 

for the benefit of the Rockwood gang. (People v. Vang, supra, 52 Cal.4th at p. 1048;

People v. Albillar, supra, 51 Cal.4th at p. 63; People v. Mendez (2010) 188 Cal.App.4th 

47, 56-57 [evidence a defendant announced his gang’s name during the commission of a 

crime supports a determination there is sufficient evidence to support a finding the crime 

was committed to benefit a gang].)

Defendant argues the events of September 14, 2014, reasonably can be seen as 

him chasing a suspected gang member out of his neighborhood and, thus, he committed 

the offenses for personal reasons and not to benefit the Rockwood gang. We review the 

evidence in the light most favorable to the jury’s gang allegation findings to determine 

whether a reasonable juror could have found the gang allegations true, and not to 

determine whether a reasonable juror could have found the gang allegations not true. 

(See People v. Edwards, supra, 57 Cal.4th at p. 715.) Moreover, if defendant’s motive in 

committing the crimes against Varela was for a purely personal reason—i.e., to rid his 

neighborhood of a suspected gang member—there would have been no reason to 

announce his gang’s name. By announcing he was from the Rockwood gang, defendant 

demonstrated he committed the offenses to benefit his gang.3

 

3 Defendant attempts to minimize the importance of Varela’s testimony that 

defendant announced his gang membership during the commission of the offenses. He

suggests the evidence should be disregarded, claiming the “prosecutor led Varela 

along . . . ” to give the challenged testimony and inferring Varela learned of defendant’s 
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Defendant contends insufficient evidence supports the jury’s finding he committed 

the offenses with the specific intent to promote, further, or assist in criminal conduct by 

the Rockwood gang because Hegemier did not offer an opinion on defendant’s intent and 

the prosecution’s case was based solely on the fact that defendant previously admitted he 

was a Rockwood gang member. But, a gang expert is not permitted to testify that a 

specific individual had a specific intent. (People v. Killebrew (2002) 103 Cal.App.4th 

644, 657, disapproved on another ground in People v. Vang, supra, 52 Cal.4th at pp. 

1047-1049.) 

We recognize there was no evidence defendant was acting with another proven 

gang member. But, such evidence is not a prerequisite to a legitimate finding that 

defendant had the specific intent to promote, further, or assist in criminal conduct by 

gang members. (See People v. Rios (2013) 222 Cal.App.4th 542, 572 [a lone actor may 

be subject to the gang enhancement].) The particulars of defendant’s actions, especially 

in light of the evidence explaining the definition of a “claimer,” were indicative of 

defendant’s specific intent to facilitate criminal conduct committed by his gang. 

By calling Varela a “claimer,” defendant went so far as to use gang vernacular to 

explain to Varela that he was angry with Varela for being present in an area controlled by 

defendant’s gang4 and falsely professing to be a Rockwood member. Based on this 

evidence, a rational jury could conclude defendant, as a representative of the Rockwood 

gang, had the specific intent to assist or promote Rockwood’s criminal conduct by

 

gang membership not from defendant but from the police or the prosecution. Because 

defendant did not object to Varela’s testimony concerning defendant’s claimed gang 

membership and does not now argue it was inadmissible, he has forfeited his argument 

that the evidence should not be considered. (Evid. Code, § 353.)

Defendant also contends Hegemier’s expert opinion lacked foundation. He made 

no such objection in the trial court and thus has forfeited his claim on appeal. (Evid. 

Code, § 353; People v. Hinton (2006) 37 Cal.4th 839, 896-897.) Moreover, as set forth 

above, Hegemier’s testimony was rooted in the facts of the September 14, 2014, incident.

4 The crimes were committed in the “territory” claimed by the Rockwood gang. 

Defendant was a 23-year veteran of the gang.
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attempting to purge the gang’s territory of a claimer, i.e., a phony Rockwood gang 

member who could interfere with the gang’s criminal operation.

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There is yet another basis to conclude defendant acted with the specific intent to 

promote or assist Rockwood’s criminal conduct. Much of the same evidence 

demonstrating the crimes were committed for the benefit of the Rockwood is, under these 

circumstances, indicative of defendant’s intent. As stated, in order for the gang to 

commit crimes without detection it is important that the community refrain from 

reporting criminal activity. In other words, detection of Rockwood crimes leads to 

prosecution which, in turn, blunts Rockwood’s criminal conduct. 

In this respect, the threats made against Varela and the battery he suffered sent 

precisely the message necessary to assist Rockwood in committing criminal conduct. 

Varela was a pedestrian in Rockwood gang territory. Defendant (a veteran member of 

the gang) announced his membership in Rockwood, indicated Varela was in his 

neighborhood, and threatened/struck Varela. Defendant emphasized he planned to have 

Varela stabbed and that he would gather his “homeboys” to seriously harm Varela. Such 

conduct is consistent with an intent to facilitate the ability of Rockwood gang members to 

commit crimes within the Rockwood territory by instilling fear in the Rockwood 

community such that community members like Varela are reluctant to report criminal 

activity.

Reversal based on insufficiency of the evidence “is unwarranted unless it appears 

‘that upon no hypothesis whatever is there sufficient substantial evidence to support [the 

conviction].’ [Citation.]” (People v. Bolin (1998) 18 Cal.4th 297, 331.) Such a situation 

is not present in this case.

 

5 There is no dispute Rockwood qualified as a criminal street gang. Its vast criminal 

operation included the commission of crimes such as murder, battery, assault, robbery, 

and extortion. 
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II. The Trial Court’s Prior Strike Conviction Finding

Defendant argues the prosecution did not plead he had a prior strike conviction

under the Three Strikes law, but, if it did, it failed to present sufficient evidence to 

support the strike allegation. The prosecution alleged defendant had a prior conviction 

for violating section 245, subdivision (a)(1) (section 245(a)(1))6that qualified as a prior 

strike conviction under the “Three Strikes” law. Sufficient evidence supports the trial 

court’s finding that the allegation was true.

A. Pleading

In his opening brief, defendant notes the information does not allege a prior strike 

conviction and, although the record indicates the prosecution filed an amended 

information, the record on appeal does not contain an amended information. We granted 

the Attorney General’s request to augment the record to include a copy of the amended 

information which includes a prior strike conviction allegation. Accordingly, the 

prosecution alleged the prior strike conviction.

B. Proof

“The People must prove each element of an alleged sentence enhancement beyond 

reasonable doubt. [Citation.]” (People v. Delgado (2008) 43 Cal.4th 1059, 1065

(Delgado).) “‘[O]fficial government records clearly describing a prior conviction 

presumptively establish that the conviction in fact occurred, assuming those records meet 

the threshold requirements of admissibility. (See Evid. Code, § 664 [“It is presumed that 

official duty has been regularly performed”].) Some evidence must rebut this 

presumption before the authenticity, accuracy, or sufficiency of the prior conviction 

records can be called into question.’ [Citation.] [¶] Thus, if the prosecutor presents, by 

 

6 Section 245(a)(1) provides: “Any person who commits an assault upon the person 

of another with a deadly weapon or instrument other than a firearm shall be punished by 

imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years, or in a county jail for not 

exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by both 

the fine and imprisonment.”
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such records, prima facie evidence of a prior conviction that satisfies the elements of the 

recidivist enhancement at issue, and if there is no contrary evidence, the fact finder, 

utilizing the official duty presumption, may determine that a qualifying conviction 

occurred. [Citations.]” (Id. at p. 1066.) 

Defendant argues the assault offense under section 245(a)(1) is not automatically a 

serious or violent felony under section 667, subdivision (c) or a serious offense under 

section 1192.7, subdivision (c). He contends, relying on Delgado, supra, 43 Cal.4th at 

page 1067, such an assault may constitute a violent or serious offense under those 

sections only if the defendant personally used a firearm or a dangerous or deadly weapon,

or personally inflicted great bodily injury. The prosecution failed to prove the prior strike 

allegation, he argues, because it did not adduce evidence regarding either of those 

qualifiers. Defendant’s reliance on Delgado is misplaced because that case concerned a 

version of section 245(a)(1) that was not in effect when defendant committed his prior 

assault offense.

In Delgado, supra, 43 Cal.4th 1059, the Supreme Court considered the sufficiency 

of the abbreviated notation “‘Asslt w DWpn’” on an abstract of judgment from a prior 

conviction to permit the inference that the conviction was for a serious felony. (Id. at p. 

1065.) Delgado’s alleged prior conviction was for a violation of section 245(a)(1). 

(Delgado, supra, 43 Cal.4th at p. 1065.) The version of section 245(a)(1) in effect when 

Delgado violated that statute made it a “felony offense to ‘commit[] an assault upon the 

person of another with a deadly weapon or instrument other than a firearm or by any 

means of force likely to produce great bodily injury.’ [Citation.]” (Delgado, supra, 43 

Cal.4th at p. 1065.)

The Supreme Court explained, “‘[A]ssault with a deadly weapon’ is a serious 

felony. (§ 1192.7, subd. (c)(31).) On the other hand, while serious felonies include all 

those ‘in which the defendant personally inflicts great bodily injury on any person’ (id., 

subd. (c)(8), italics added), assault merely by means likely to produce GBI, without the 

additional element of personal infliction, is not included in the list of serious felonies. 

Hence, as the parties acknowledge, a conviction under the deadly weapon prong of 
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section 245(a)(1) is a serious felony, but a conviction under the GBI prong is not.” 

(Delgado, supra, 43 Cal.4th at p. 1065.) 

Thus, the court in Delgado held, “[I]f the prior conviction was for an offense that 

can be committed in multiple ways, and the record of the conviction does not disclose 

how the offense was committed, a court must presume the conviction was for the least 

serious form of the offense. [Citations.] In such a case, if the statute under which the 

prior conviction occurred could be violated in a way that does not qualify for the alleged 

enhancement, the evidence is thus insufficient, and the People have failed in their burden. 

[Citation.]” (Delgado, supra, 43 Cal.4th at p. 1066.)

In this case, in support of defendant’s prior strike conviction allegation, the 

prosecution relied on court records, admitted by the trial court, that showed defendant 

pleaded nolo contendere to assault in violation of section 245(a)(1) on September 30, 

2013, in case number BA411761, for an assault that took place in 2013. In the amended 

information, the prosecution alleged defendant was convicted on June 18, 2014, in case 

number BA4117617 of violating section 245. 

In 2011, section 245(a)(1) provided: “Any person who commits an assault upon 

the person of another with a deadly weapon or instrument other than a firearm or by any 

means of force likely to produce great bodily injury shall be punished by imprisonment in 

the state prison for two, three, or four years, or in a county jail for not exceeding one 

year, or by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by both the fine and 

imprisonment.” (Italics added.) That year, the Legislature amended section 245, 

removing assaults “by any means of force likely to produce great bodily injury” from 

subdivision (a)(1), and placing them in newly added subdivision (a)(4) of section 245.8 

 

7 The amended information appears to identify the wrong conviction date.

8 “According to the Report of the Assembly Committee on Public Safety, the 

purpose of this change was to permit a more efficient assessment of a defendant’s prior 

criminal history since an assault with a deadly weapon qualifies as a ‘serious felony’ (see 

Pen. Code, § 1192.7, subd. (c)(1)), while an assault by force likely to produce great 

bodily injury does not. (See Assem. Com. on Public Safety, Analysis of Assem. Bill No.
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(Stats. 2011, ch. 183, § 1; People v. Brown, supra, 210 Cal.App.4th at p. 5, fn. 1.) Thus,

the version of section 245(a)(1) in effect when defendant committed the offense for 

which he pleaded nolo contendere in 2013 (and in effect now), made it a crime to

“‘commit[] an assault upon the person of another with a deadly weapon or instrument 

other than a firearm.’” That is, unlike the version of section 245(a)(1) at issue in 

Delgado, supra, 43 Cal.4th at page 1065, the version at issue in this case concerns only

assaults with a deadly weapon or instrument other than a firearm, and does not concern 

assaults by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury—which assaults are now 

addressed in subdivision (a)(4) of section 245.

Assault with a deadly weapon is a serious felony. (§ 1192.7, subd. (c)(31); 

Delgado, supra, 43 Cal.4th at p. 1065.) Section 1192.7, subdivision (c)(31) does not 

require personal use of the deadly weapon. Defendant pleaded nolo contendere to 

“commit[ing] an assault upon the person of another with a deadly weapon or instrument 

other than a firearm.” The version of section 245(a)(1) in effect when defendant 

committed the assault to which he pleaded nolo contendere in 2013 could not be violated 

in a way that did not constitute a serious felony under section 1192.7, subdivision (c)(31). 

Accordingly, sufficient evidence supports the trial court’s prior strike conviction finding.

III. Defendant Was Entitled to 416 Days of Sentence Credit

The trial court awarded defendant 306 days of sentence credit consisting of 153 

days of actual custody and 153 days of conduct credit. Defendant correctly points out he 

was entitled to 416 days of sentence credit consisting of 208 days of actual custody and 

208 days of conduct credit. 

A defendant is entitled to credit against a state prison term for all days actually 

spent in custody prior to sentencing. (§ 2900.5, subd. (a).) In addition, a defendant may 

be entitled to conduct credit pursuant to section 4019. Under section 4019, a defendant 

earns two days of conduct credit for every two days of actual presentence custody. (§ 

 

1026 (2011-2012 Reg. Sess.) as introduced Feb. 18, 2011.)” (People v. Brown (2012) 

210 Cal.App.4th 1, 5, fn. 1.)
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4019, subds. (b), (c), & (f)). In calculating actual days in custody, a defendant is entitled 

to credit for the day of arrest (People v. Taylor (2004) 119 Cal.App.4th 628, 645), partial

days, and the day of sentencing (People v. Browning (1991) 233 Cal.App.3d 1410, 1412; 

People v. Fugate (1990) 219 Cal.App.3d 1408, 1414). 

Defendant contends the record reflects he was arrested on September 14, 2014, 

and remained in custody until he was sentenced on April 9, 2015, a period of 208 days. 

We agree. A competency evaluation report in the record refers to a September 14, 2014, 

Los Angeles Police Department arrest report. Defendant’s September 14, 2014, arrest is 

confirmed by his rap sheet which the prosecution introduced at defendant’s trial on the 

prior conviction allegations. In addition, defendant was in custody for his September 30, 

2014, preliminary hearing. A review of the minute orders for the period between from 

September 30, 2014, to April 9, 2015, shows defendant was continuously in custody. No 

minute order shows defendant was released from custody. 

The number of days from and including September 14, 2014, to and including 

April 9, 2015, was 208. Accordingly, defendant was entitled to 416 days of sentence 

credit. (§ 2900.5, subd. (a); § 4019, subds. (b), (c), & (f); People v. Taylor, supra, 119 

Cal.App.4th at p. 645; People v. Browning, supra, 233 Cal.App.3d at p. 1412; People v. 

Fugate, supra, 219 Cal.App.3d at p. 1414.) We order the minute order for defendant’s 

sentencing hearing and the abstract of judgment modified to reflect 416 days of sentence 

credit consisting of 208 days of actual custody credit and 208 days of conduct credit.
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DISPOSITION

The minute order for defendant’s sentencing hearing and the abstract of judgment 

are ordered modified to reflect 416 days of sentence credit consisting of 208 days of 

actual custody credit and 208 days of conduct credit. The trial court is to forward a 

corrected abstract of judgment to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The 

judgment is otherwise affirmed.

CERTIFIED FOR PARTIAL PUBLICATION

KUMAR, J.

We concur:

KRIEGLER, Acting P. J.

BAKER, J.

 

 Judge of the Superior Court of the County of Los Angeles, assigned by the Chief 

Justice pursuant to article VI, section 6 of the California Constitution.