Court Opinion

ID: 9492057
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 14:31:10.116079+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:55:05.248804
License: Public Domain

WINTER, Chief Judge,
dissenting:
I continue to dissent for the reasons stated in Part I of my earlier separate opinion.
To reiterate briefly, Warner, before sentencing and facing his third alcohol-related driving offense in one year, voluntarily began attending AA meetings on the advice of counsel. It is conceded that he resorted to AA in the hope of obtaining a sentence of probation rather than jail time. The Orange County Probation Department recommended probation on the condition that Warner continue what he had purposefully began, attendance at AA meetings. The sentencing judge independently arrived at the same conclusion. Warner neither objected to the sentence nor took an appeal. Asking for particular relief, not objecting to its imposition, and failing to appeal from that imposition is the very definition of waiver.
I therefore dissent.