Court Opinion

ID: 9557484
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 16:51:05.853842+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:05:53.260594
License: Public Domain

CHIN, J.
I concur in the judgment because I agree that Penal Code section 969a authorizes postverdict amendments at least until the trial court discharges the jury.
However, I do not join the majority insofar as it interprets Penal Code section 969a to authorize amendments beyond that point, until sentencing. On the facts of this case, it is unnecessary to decide this question, which implicates a defendant’s statutory right to have the same jury determine both guilt and the truth of prior conviction allegations. (See, e.g., Pen. Code, § 1025; Health & Saf. Code, § 11370, subd. (d).) Indeed, notwithstanding its *611interpretation of section 969a, the majority recognizes that this statutory right may prohibit postdischarge amendments. (Maj. opn., ante, at p. 608, fn. 4.) Thus, our decision here does not establish that postdischarge amendments are permissible.
Brown, J., concurred.