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clerical error

1 opinion tagged “clerical error”

P. v. Sanchez 4/8/26 CA4/1

The Rule of People v. Sanchez is that when a court corrects a clerical error in calculating prison time on an abstract of judgment, it lacks jurisdiction to modify other aspects of a final sentence absent specific statutory authorization, under circumstances where the original sentencing court properly sentenced defendant to separate felony prison terms and misdemeanor county jail terms but the abstract incorrectly included misdemeanor time in the total state prison calculation.