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NOTICE: NOT FOR OFFICIAL PUBLICATION.
 UNDER ARIZONA RULE OF THE SUPREME COURT 111(c), THIS DECISION IS NOT PRECEDENTIAL
                 AND MAY BE CITED ONLY AS AUTHORIZED BY RULE.

                                    IN THE
             ARIZONA COURT OF APPEALS
                                DIVISION ONE

                     STATE OF ARIZONA, Respondent,

                                        v.

             TERESA MARIE HOLLINGSWORTH, Petitioner.

                         No. 1 CA-CR 17-0827 PRPC
                              FILED 8-9-2018

    Petition for Review from the Superior Court in Maricopa County
                         No. CR2015-113289-001
            The Honorable John R. Doody, Judge Pro Tempore

       REVIEW GRANTED AND RELIEF GRANTED IN PART

                                   COUNSEL

Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, Phoenix
By Diane Meloche
Counsel for Respondent

Teresa Marie Hollingsworth, Goodyear
Petitioner

                       MEMORANDUM DECISION

Presiding Judge Randall M. Howe delivered the decision of the Court, in
which Judge Jennifer M. Perkins and Judge Peter B. Swann joined.
                      STATE v. HOLLINGSWORTH
                         Decision of the Court

H O W E, Judge:

¶1              Teresa Marie Hollingsworth petitions this Court for review
from the dismissal of her petition for post-conviction relief. We have
considered the petition and for the reasons stated, grant review and grant
relief in part.

¶2            Hollingsworth originally pled guilty to two counts of
aggravated assault that involved two different peace officers, class 5
felonies, and one count of interfering with judicial proceedings (“IJP”), a
class 1 misdemeanor, in CR 2015-113289-001. The court suspended
Hollingsworth’s sentence, and she received probation on all counts,
including a condition that required 30 days in jail with credit for time
already served on one of the aggravated assault counts. The original
confinement order issued on December 9, 2015, released her on only one
aggravated assault count, and an amended confinement order was issued
at 4:59 p.m. on December 14, 2015, ordering her released on the remaining
counts.

¶3            After violating probation, Hollingsworth was reinstated to
intensive probation supervision, including a condition requiring 180 days
in jail on one of the aggravated assault counts. She was given a terminal
disposition on the IJP. Before completing her jail term, she returned to court
and rejected probation. The court sentenced Hollingsworth to concurrent
terms of two years’ imprisonment on each aggravated assault count and to
time served on the IJP count. She was given 270 days’ presentence
incarceration credit on one aggravated assault count and 347 days’ credit
on the other aggravated assault count. She signed her Notice of Rights of
Review after Conviction and Procedure.1

¶4            Hollingsworth filed an untimely motion to correct her
sentence, claiming that the credit for time served on her sentence was

1     The court sentenced her in CR 2014-151832 to a consecutive term of
imprisonment. She refers to this sentence in her trial court pleadings, but
the petition here was filed under CR 2015-113289-001, and she does not
address any issues in her petition for review relating to the 2014 case. She
does attach a Department of Corrections document to her petition, but the
document was not presented to the trial court and we decline to consider
any argument relying on that document. See State v. Wagstaff, 161 Ariz. 66,
71 (App. 1988). Therefore, any claims concerning her sentence in CR 2014-
151832 are waived. See Ariz. R. Crim. P. 32.9(c)(4)(D).

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incorrect. The trial court, noting the untimely request under Arizona Rule
of Criminal Procedure 24.3, treated it as a Rule 32 proceeding, addressed
the merits of her claim, and denied relief.

¶5            Hollingsworth then petitioned for review. She adds a claim of
“double punishment” presumably under A.R.S. § 13–116. This argument
was not raised before the trial court, and this Court will not consider
meritorious issues not first presented to the trial court. See Wagstaff, 161
Ariz. at 71. The claim is otherwise not timely, and is waived and without
merit because each count involved a separate victim, which did not require
double credit. See State v. White, 160 Ariz. 377, 381 (App. 1989) (holding that
consecutive sentences, even from a single act, do not violate the statute). To
the extent Hollingsworth otherwise claims an illegal sentence, she is
untimely and precluded. See Ariz. R. Crim. P. 32.1(c), 32.2(b); State v. Shrum,
220 Ariz. 115, 117–20 ¶¶ 3–23 (2009). Hollingsworth filed her Rule 32
petition on November 28, 2017, which was more than 90 days after the court
sentenced Hollingsworth on July 28, 2016.

¶6            Hollingsworth is correct, however, that the court erred in
calculating her presentence incarceration credit. The record shows that the
original order of confinement released her on only one of the two
aggravated assault counts on December 9, 2015. An amended order
released her on the remaining count and was issued at 4:59 p.m. on
December 14, 2015. While technically released on one count, she spent
additional days in jail because she had not been released on the other count.
She was in fact incarcerated for an additional six days based upon the
erroneous order.

¶7              Hollingsworth’s claim would normally be moot because she
has served her full sentence on these matters. “[W]hen an entire sentence
has been served prior to consideration of that sole issue on appeal, the
validity of its imposition is a moot question.” State v. Hartford, 145 Ariz. 403,
405 (App. 1985). However, since she is now serving a consecutive term in
CR 2014-151832, any upward adjustment in her credited time could affect
the time to be served on her remaining sentence. Had the trial court realized
the error, it could have simply corrected the July 27, 2016 minute entry to
reflect the error addressed in its amended order of confinement. See Ariz.
R. Crim. P. 24.4.

¶8            Therefore, the trial court’s July 27, 2016 minute entry shall be
corrected to reflect a total of 276 days’ and 353 days’ presentence
incarceration credit for the respective aggravated assault counts. See Ariz.
R. Crim. P. 31.17(b) (2017) (“The Appellate Court may reverse, affirm, or

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modify the action of the lower court and issue any necessary and
appropriate orders.”).

¶9            Hollingsworth’s other claims regarding calculation of dates
are without merit. As part of her reinstatement to probation, she was
incarcerated for 78 days on one of the concurrent counts, but not the other
count. As such, she has received the appropriate credit. The court was
correct in not crediting her with the days on both counts, and the
calculations were otherwise correct.

¶10          For the foregoing reasons, we grant review and grant relief in
part.

                          AMY M. WOOD • Clerk of the Court
                          FILED: AA

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