Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2015-06-16 19:03:13.501524+00
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Filed 6/16/15 P. v. Martinez CA4/3

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              IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

                                     FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

                                                 DIVISION THREE

THE PEOPLE,

     Plaintiff and Respondent,                                         G050207

                   v.                                                  (Super. Ct. No. 13NF1843)

LOUIS ANGEL MARTINEZ,                                                  OPINION

     Defendant and Appellant.

                   Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Orange County, John
Conley, Judge. Affirmed as modified.
                   Richard Power, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant
and Appellant.
                   Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant
Attorney General, Julie L. Garland, Assistant Attorney General, Meagan J. Beale and
William M. Wood, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

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              This is one of two companion cases in which defendant Louis Angel
Martinez pleaded guilty to different offenses. The matters were joined for sentencing and
the trial court sentenced him for both cases on the same date. As with the companion
case, Orange County Superior Court case No. 13WF3134 (G050209), defendant contends
the abstract of judgment reflects the incorrect number of total custody credits. The
Attorney General agrees, as do we, that the abstract of judgment should be modified. “A
sentence that fails to award legally mandated custody credit is unauthorized and may be
corrected whenever discovered.” (People v. Taylor (2004) 119 Cal. App. 4th 628, 647; see
People v. Acosta (1996) 48 Cal. App. 4th 411, 428, fn. 8 [“The failure to award an
adequate amount of credits is a jurisdictional error which may be raised at any time”].)
              In this case, defendant pleaded guilty to possessing marijuana for sale
(count 1) and selling or transporting marijuana (count 2). He thereafter admitted the
enhancement that he committed count 1 while released on bail or on his own
recognizance in another case, and allegations of prior convictions. The court struck the
prior conviction allegations, stayed the sentence on count 1, and imposed a one-year term
on count 2, consecutive to the sentence issued in the companion case, Orange County
Superior Court case No. 13WF3134. The court awarded defendant 395 days credit (359
actual, 36 conduct). The total term imposed for this case (one year) and the companion
case, Orange County Superior Court case No. 13WF3134, (eight years) totals nine years.
              As of the original date set for sentencing, February 28, 2014, defendant had
spent 274 days in custody. Adding 35 days (from March 1, 2014 to the April 4, 2014
sentencing date) brings the total to 309 days. But because all but one day (May 31, 2013)
of the custody time in this case overlaps with the custody time in companion case No.
13WF3134, for which defendant received credit, defendant agrees he is entitled to only
one additional credit in this case. (Pen. Code, § 2900.5; People v. Bruner (1995) 9
Cal. 4th 1178, 1194.)

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               Both parties are additionally correct in noting that the abstract of judgment
fails to list defendant’s possession for sale conviction, for which the sentence was stayed.
               The trial court is directed to prepare and forward an amended abstract of
judgment, indicating, as to case “B” as designated in the abstract of judgment (Orange
County Superior Court case No. 13NF1843), one additional day of actual prison custody
credit. Adding the 394 custody credits awarded in case “A” as designated in the abstract
of judgment (Orange County Superior Court case No. 13WF3134), the amended abstract
of judgment shall reflect a combined total of 395 days of custody credit for both Nos.
13NF1843 and 13WF3134. It shall also include the stayed sentence on defendant’s
possession for sale conviction. As amended, the abstract of judgment shall be forwarded
to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. In all other respects, the judgment
is affirmed.

                                                  RYLAARSDAM, ACTING P. J.

WE CONCUR:

IKOLA, J.

THOMPSON, J.

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