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Date Created: 2013-10-15 23:28:32.481866+00
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Filed 10/15/13 P. v. Hall CA2/7
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              IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

                                     SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

                                                DIVISION SEVEN

THE PEOPLE,                                                          B244814

         Plaintiff and Respondent,                                   (Los Angeles County
                                                                     Super. Ct. No. BA384577)
         v.

CHARLES SHANE HALL,

         Defendant and Appellant.

         APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles, John S. Fisher,
Judge. Affirmed as modified with directions.
         Christine J. Esser, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and
Appellant.
         Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney
General, Lance E. Winters, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Steven D. Matthews and
Connie H. Kan, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

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                                      INTRODUCTION

       Defendant Charles Shane Hall appeals from a judgment of conviction entered
pursuant to a negotiated plea of no contest. Hall challenges the order that he “[o]bey the
protective order issued in this or any other case.” He also argues that the abstract of
judgment must be corrected to reflect the award of presentence custody credits. We
agree with Hall, affirm the judgment as modified, and remand with directions to modify
the abstract of judgment.

                 FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

       Hall was charged in an information with two counts of making a criminal threat
(Pen. Code, § 422)1 against Nancy Correas, the mother of his children. As to both
counts, the information specially alleged that Hall had suffered two prior serious or
violent felony convictions within the meaning of section 667, subdivision (a)(1), and the
“Three Strikes” law (§§ 667, subds. (b)-(i), 1170.12) and had served a separate prison
term for a felony (§ 667.5, subd. (b)). Represented by counsel, Hall pleaded not guilty
and denied the special allegations.
       Pursuant to a negotiated agreement, Hall pleaded no contest to one count of
making a criminal threat and admitted one prior strike conviction. The trial court
sentenced Hall to an aggregate state prison term of 32 months (the 16-month lower term
doubled under the three strikes law). The trial court dismissed the remaining count and
special allegations as part of the plea agreement.
       At the conclusion of the sentencing hearing on September 10, 2012, the trial court
agreed to the prosecutor’s request to issue a “10-year protective order.” The hearing
concluded with the following exchange:
       “THE COURT: So unless there’s anything else I think that’s it.

1      All further statutory references are to the Penal Code.

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       “[PROSECUTOR]: Nothing further. If he could be served with the 10-year
protective order?
       “THE COURT: All right. Thank you and good luck.”
       The minute order for the sentencing hearing states, “Defendant is served with a
copy of the protective order in open court.” The record on appeal, however, does not
include a protective order dated September 10, 2012. The record does include a
protective order with the Superior Court case number in this case (BA384577) naming
“Nancy Correas” as the protected person, but it is dated May 20, 2011, expires the same
day, and identifies “Michael Hall” as the defendant and “person to be restrained.” Both
the minute order of the sentencing hearing and the abstract of judgment state that Hall is
to “[o]bey the protective order issued in this case or any other case.” The “or any other
case” language does not appear in the transcript of the sentencing hearing.

                                       DISCUSSION

       Although nothing in the record specifically indicates the statutory basis for the
protective order, the parties agree the trial court issued the order pursuant to
section 136.2. This statute authorizes the court, in cases where the defendant has been
convicted of a crime of domestic violence, to issue “an order restraining the defendant
from any contact with the victim. The order may be valid for up to 10 years, as
determined by the court.” (§ 136.2, subd. (i)(1).) Hall acknowledges that the trial court
has the authority to issue such an order, but argues that the court exceeded its authority
under the statute by ordering him to obey protective orders “issued in . . . any other case.”
We agree with Hall that this language should be stricken from the minute order.
       We have some doubt whether a court, when issuing a protective order, can also
order the defendant to comply with a protective order issued against him or her in another
case. We do not need to resolve this issue, however, because the transcript of the
sentencing hearing does not include this order. “Where there is a discrepancy between
the oral pronouncement of judgment and the minute order or the abstract of judgment, the

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oral pronouncement controls.” (People v. Zackery (2007) 147 Cal. App. 4th 380, 385;
accord, People v. Walz (2008) 160 Cal. App. 4th 1364, 1367, fn. 3; see People v. Delgado
(2008) 43 Cal. 4th 1059, 1070 [“abstract of judgment . . . cannot prevail over the court’s
oral pronouncement of judgment to the extent the two conflict”]; People v. Sharret
(2011) 191 Cal. App. 4th 859, 864 [“oral pronouncement of judgment controls over any
discrepancy with the minutes or the abstract of judgment”].) Because the trial court did
not orally pronounce the “or any other case” term of the protective order during the
sentencing hearing, we strike that language in the minute order.
       Finally, we direct the trial court to modify a clerical error in the abstract of
judgment to reflect the court’s recalculation of presentence custody credits in its
February 27, 2013 minute order. The People concede that the abstract of judgment
should be corrected to reflect the proper number of credits. “It is, of course, important
that courts correct errors and omissions in abstracts of judgment.” (People v. Mitchell
(2001) 26 Cal. 4th 181, 185.)

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                                      DISPOSITION

       As modified, the judgment is affirmed. The matter is remanded to the trial court
with directions to strike the words “or any other case” from the September 10, 2012
minute order. We also direct the trial court to modify the abstract of judgment so that it
is consistent with the minute order, and to correct the abstract of judgment to reflect the
award of 734 days of presentence custody credits (490 days actual days plus 244 days of
conduct credits). The superior court is to prepare a corrected abstract of judgment and to
forward a copy to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

                                                  SEGAL, J.*

We concur:

              WOODS, Acting P. J.

              ZELON, J.

*       Judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court, assigned by the Chief Justice pursuant to
article VI, section 6 of the California Constitution.

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