People v. Martinez CA2/3 ( 2014 )


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  • Filed 5/23/14 P. v. Martinez CA2/3
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    IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
    SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT
    DIVISION THREE
    THE PEOPLE,                                                              B244067
    Plaintiff and Respondent,                                      (Los Angeles County
    Super. Ct. No. KA095806)
    v.
    ARMANDO MARTINEZ
    Defendant and Appellant.
    APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Robert M.
    Martinez, Judge. Affirmed as modified.
    Mark J. Shusted, 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, Assistant Attorney General, Victoria B. Wilson and Erika D.
    Jackson, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    _________________________
    Armando Martinez (appellant) appeals from the judgment following a jury trial in
    which he was convicted of second degree robbery. (Pen. Code, § 211; count 4.)1 At
    sentencing, appellant was placed on formal probation for a period of five years on
    condition, inter alia, that he serve 365 days in the county jail, with an award of presentence
    credits and orders he comply with certain conditions of probation designed to halt his
    marijuana use.
    CONTENTIONS
    He contends that the trial court improperly failed to give a sua sponte jury
    instruction as to a lesser-included offense of grand theft and that it should have defined the
    term “force” sua sponte when instructing on the elements of robbery in CALCRIM
    No. 1600. In his final contention, he asserts he is entitled to one additional day of section
    2900.5 conduct credit.
    Only appellant’s final contention has merit.
    BACKGROUND
    1. The charges and verdict.
    The information charged appellant with kidnapping to commit rape
    (§ 209, subd. (b)(1); count 1), simple kidnapping (§ 207, subd. (a); count 2), dissuading a
    witness from reporting a crime (§ 136.1, subd. (b)(1); count 3), second degree robbery
    (§ 211; count 4), sexual battery by restraint (§ 243.4, subd. (a); count 5) and assault to
    commit a felony, violations of rape, sodomy, oral copulation “and a violation of sections
    264.1, 288 and 289” (§ 220, subd. (a)(1); count 6). At the close of the evidence, the trial
    court instructed the jury as to the above offenses, as well as to lesser included offenses of
    imprisonment by violence or menace, false imprisonment without violence or duress,
    battery and assault. The trial court instructed the jury that simple theft or larceny was a
    lesser included offense of robbery (CALCRIM No. 1800, concerning petty theft within the
    meaning of section 484, subdivision (a)).
    The jury returned a verdict of guilty as to only one offense, the robbery.
    1
    All further statutory references are to the Penal Code unless otherwise specified.
    2
    2. The trial evidence.
    We view the evidence in the light most favorable to the judgment. (People v.
    Ochoa (1993) 
    6 Cal. 4th 1199
    , 1206.)
    a. The People’s case-in-chief.
    At about 10:30 a.m. or 11:30 a.m. on October 13, 2011, B.D., age 50, purchased a
    few groceries at a market on Valley Boulevard and walked down Garvey Avenue.2 It took
    her 12 minutes to walk home from the market to the apartment where she lived with her
    daughter and son-in-law, Jose. That stretch of Garvey Avenue is frequented by prostitutes.
    B.D. was wearing jeans and a tank top and was carrying a small bag of groceries.
    As she walked along the sidewalk, appellant approached in his van and spoke to her
    through the van’s passenger window. Appellant said something about being bored and
    inquired as to B.D.’s marital status. B.D. replied she was married, then ignored him and
    continued home. Appellant waylaid her down the street. He had parked his van and was
    on foot. After a comment, he put his arm around her, hugged her and pressed his finger or
    an instrument she believed might be a knife into her abdomen, telling her to act as if she
    was his girlfriend. He “took [her] inside the van” and said he was giving her a ride. Once
    inside, she attempted to open the passenger door, but could not get the door open.
    Appellant walked around the van and entered the driver’s seat.
    Appellant started driving. Appellant smelled of marijuana and looked “strange” or
    “drugged.” Appellant said nothing and immediately took his penis out of his shorts and
    masturbated. She was scared and said, “Help me,” and “I am not a whore.” He grabbed
    her breast, and she pushed his hand away.
    B.D. concluded appellant was going to rape and kill her. He sped up, and they were
    near a freeway onramp. In order to prevent him from taking her onto the freeway, B.D.
    told him she would have sex with him. She said they should go to her apartment “to do it”
    and that her son-in-law might or might not be there. At trial, she explained she had entered
    the van and started telling appellant she would have sex with him because she was afraid.
    2
    At the trial, B.D. testified with the aid of a Spanish-to-English interpreter.
    3
    She wanted to persuade him she would have sex with him so that she could direct him to a
    location near her apartment. She hoped that once appellant stopped the van, she could get
    out.
    When they approached the area near her apartment, she told appellant there was a
    dark tunnel nearby, and they could “do it there.” Appellant slowed his van near the tunnel
    and unlocked the “latch” on B.D.’s door. B.D. opened the van’s passenger door, grabbed
    her cell phone and told him, “I’m going to call the police.” Appellant grabbed the cell
    phone from her. She explained he did not merely pluck it from her hand. She testified,
    “We were kind of struggling and I hit him” with one of the yogurt containers in her
    grocery bag. Appellant continued to struggle with her in order to get possession of her cell
    phone. She was yelling, “Give me my phone,” and telling him she was going to telephone
    9-1-1.
    She got out of the car, and appellant drove off with B.D.’s cell phone. The
    container of Lala strawberry-banana yogurt she threw at him remained in the van.
    She ran home. She was very upset. Her son-in-law Jose tried to locate appellant on
    his bicycle. An hour and a half following the assault, B.D.’s daughter telephoned the
    police.
    After B.D. made a police report, Jose, the police and B.D. contacted appellant on
    B.D.’s cell phone. Appellant was arrested when he arrived at a meeting point to return
    B.D.’s cell phone. Upon arrest, B.D.’s cell phone, some marijuana and a pair of
    wirecutters were recovered from appellant’s van. A container of Lala strawberry-banana
    yogurt was sitting on the van’s middle seat.
    At trial, B.D. denied being a prostitute, and previously had told the police officers
    she never engaged in prostitution. During cross-examination, B.D. agreed appellant had
    grabbed part of her cell phone, and at the same time, she had her hand on it, pulling on
    another part of the cell phone. Appellant then pulled the cell phone right out of her hand.
    Appellant did not hit her on her body. She then got out of the van, she just stood there
    feeling dumb and yelling at appellant.
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    b. Appellant’s statement to the police.
    The day after his arrest, after a Miranda waiver (Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
    
    384 U.S. 436
    ), appellant made a statement to police officers. The officers inquired why
    appellant believed he had been arrested. He replied it was because he had “disrespected”
    B.D. by touching her and talking to her in a way he was not supposed to. He admitted
    smoking marijuana prior to his contact with B.D. He claimed he and B.D. conversed, and
    she voluntarily got into his car. He interpreted what B.D. did and said as giving him mixed
    signals about whether she would have sex with him. He told the officer that once B.D.
    directed him to a location near her residence, she opened her door, started screaming for
    help and said she was going to “call the cops.” He panicked and “took her phone,” then
    left.
    He made conflicting statements concerning whether he used the wirecutters to get
    B.D. into the van. He admitted he had stopped his van to speak to B.D. because he was
    interested in having sex with her. But he claimed he never would have forced B.D. to have
    sex with him.
    3. The defense.
    Appellant called a psychologist as a defense witness. The psychologist testified that
    a person who is high on marijuana is likely to experience impairments in how they
    perceive the environment, in memory and in measuring the passage of time. Smoking
    marijuana can also impair social judgment and make a person more impulsive.
    Appellant testified on his own behalf. He said that on the morning of October
    13, 2011, he smoked seven grams of marijuana. He drove to Garvey Avenue to find a
    prostitute, although he only had a debit card with him and no cash. Appellant claimed he
    spoke to B.D. for a few moments, then B.D. entered his van. He denied he had locked the
    passenger door in order to prevent her from getting out. B.D. had refused his offer to
    “hook up.” He tried to persuade her that they should have some fun. Then she told him,
    “Pull over,” and said she would have “sex with [him].” She directed him to a nearby
    location, but refused to let him touch her breasts. He pulled over as directed.
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    As he slowed his van, B.D. took out her cell phone and said she was going to call
    the police. He “freaked out,” and “grabbed the phone and [took] it away from her.” He
    claimed there was no struggle over the phone -- he had it out of her hand before she had a
    chance to grab it. He testified, “I just took the phone. She tried to grab it but I already
    grabbed it.” The prosecutor asked, “So you grabbed that phone by force out of her hand?”
    Appellant replied, “Yes, ma’am.” The prosecutor said, “Because she was going to call the
    police,” and appellant said, “Yes, ma’am.” 3
    Then appellant quickly drove off, keeping the cell phone.
    He claimed he later attempted to return the cell phone because he felt bad. But he
    also admitted he went to the designated meeting place thinking he would return the phone.
    He had believed that by contacting him, B.D. was giving him the signal she was interested
    in having sex with him. He claimed his marijuana use left him confused, and his thinking
    processes had been slow. He denied remembering ever having the wirecutters in his hand
    and claimed using the wirecutters to force B.D. into the car was not something he ever
    would have done. He said he never would have forced B.D. to have sex with him.
    During recross-examination, appellant admitted he had become aware in the van
    that his conduct had frightened B.D.
    3
    The colloquy was as follows: “Q. [The prosecutor:] What happened? [¶]
    A. [Appellant:] She opened the door and pulled out her cell phone and said, ‘I’m going to
    call the police.’ [¶] Q. Okay. [¶] So you stopped the car and she immediately pulled out
    her cell phone and said she was calling the police? [¶] A. Yes, Ma’am. [¶] Q. And you
    immediately grabbed that phone, snatched it out of her hand? [¶] A. Yes, Ma’am. [¶]
    Q. In fact, she tried to keep her phone and you struggled for it? [¶] A. No, Ma’am. I just
    took the phone. She tried to grab it but I already grabbed it. [¶] Q. So you grabbed that
    phone by force out of her hand? [¶] A. Yes, Ma’am. [¶] Q. Because she was going to
    call the police? [¶] A. Yes, Ma’am.” Appellant claimed, “I just did a reaction, just
    grabbed the phone so she wouldn’t call the police.” The prosecutor asked appellant
    whether after B.D. got out of the van, she had asked for the return of her telephone, and he
    replied in the affirmative.
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    DISCUSSION
    1. The trial court erred by failing to charge the jury sua sponte as to a lesser
    included offense of grand theft from the person.
    a. The trial court’s instructional duties.
    “ ‘[E]ven absent a request, and over any party’s objection, a trial court must instruct
    a criminal jury on any lesser offense “necessarily included” in the charged offense, if there
    is substantial evidence that only the lesser crime was committed. This venerable
    instructional rule ensures that the jury may consider all supportable crimes necessarily
    included within the charge itself, thus encouraging the most accurate verdict permitted by
    the pleadings and the evidence.’ (People v. Birks (1998) 
    19 Cal. 4th 108
    , 112 . . . .) ‘[T]he
    rule prevents either party, whether by design or inadvertence, from forcing an all-or-
    nothing choice between conviction of the stated offense on the one hand, or complete
    acquittal on the other. Hence, the rule encourages a verdict, within the charge chosen by
    the prosecution, that is neither “harsher [n]or more lenient than the evidence merits.”
    [Citations.]’ (Id. at p. 119.) ‘. . . [A] court is not obliged to instruct on theories that have
    no such evidentiary support.’ ([People v.] Breverman [(1998)] 19 Cal.4th [142,]
    162 [(Breverman)].)” (People v. Smith (2013) 
    57 Cal. 4th 232
    , 239.)
    Robbery is the felonious taking of personal property in the possession of another,
    from his person or immediate presence, and against his will, accomplished by means of
    force or fear. (§ 211.)4 The difference between robbery and theft is the element that the
    4
    The jury was instructed as to robbery with CALCRIM No. 1600, as follows: “The
    defendant is charged in Count 4 with robbery in violation of Penal Code section 211. [¶]
    To prove that the defendant is guilty of this crime, the People must prove that: [¶] 1. The
    defendant took property that was not his own; [¶] 2. The property was taken from another
    person’s possession and immediate presence; [¶] 3. The property was taken against that
    person’s will; [¶] 4. The defendant used force or fear to take the property or to prevent the
    person from resisting; [¶] AND [¶] 5. When the defendant used force or fear to take the
    property, he intended to deprive the owner of it permanently or to remove it from the
    owner’s possession for so extended a period of time that the owner would be deprived of a
    major portion of the value or enjoyment of the property. [¶] The defendant’s intent to take
    the property must have been formed before or during the time he used force or fear. If the
    defendant did not form this required intent until after using the force or fear, then he did
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    property be removed from the victim by means of force or fear. (People v. Burns (2009)
    
    172 Cal. App. 4th 1251
    , 1256 (Burns).)
    b. The analysis.
    There is no dispute that the offense of grand theft from the person (§ 487,
    subdivision (c)), can be a lesser included offense to robbery, just as simple theft or larceny
    (§ 484) is a lesser offense to both robbery (§ 211) and grand theft from the person (§ 487,
    subd. (c)). Grand theft from the person is a form of larceny or theft where the property is
    in some way physically attached to the person and removed from the victim’s personal
    presence as the item is in contact with the person. No force is required. (People v.
    Huggins (1997) 
    51 Cal. App. 4th 1654
    , 1656-1657; People v. Williams (1992)
    
    9 Cal. App. 4th 1465
    , 1472.)
    not commit robbery. [¶] If you find the defendant guilty of robbery, it is robbery of the
    second degree. [¶] A person takes something when he or she gains possession of it and
    moves it some distance. The distance moved may be short. [¶] The property taken can be
    of any value, however slight. [¶] A person does not have to actually hold or touch
    something to possess it. It is enough if the person has control over it or the right to control
    it, either personally or through another person. [¶] Fear, as used here, means fear of injury
    to the person himself or herself. [¶] Property is within a person’s immediate presence if it
    is sufficiently within his or her physical control that he or she could keep possession of it if
    not prevented by force or fear. [¶] An act is done against a person’s will if that person
    does not consent to the act. In order to consent, a person must act freely and voluntarily
    and know the nature of the act.
    The jury was also given the jury instruction, CALCRIM No. 1800, concerning petty
    theft, as a lesser included offense to robbery.
    “The crime of petty theft in violation of Penal Code section 484 is a lesser crime of
    robbery as charged in Count 4. [¶] To prove that the defendant is guilty of this crime, the
    People must prove that: [¶] 1. The defendant took possession of property owned by
    someone else; [¶] 2. The defendant took the property without the owner’s consent; [¶]
    3. When the defendant took the property he intended to deprive the owner of it
    permanently or to remove it from the owner’s possession for so extended a period of time
    that the owner would be deprived of a major portion of the value or enjoyment of the
    property; [¶] AND [¶] 4. The defendant moved the property, even a small distance, and
    kept it for any period of time, however brief. [¶] For petty theft, the property taken can be
    of any value, no matter how slight.”
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    Here, the trial court charged the jury as to robbery and simple theft or larceny, but
    did not charge the jury as to larceny from the person, i.e., grand theft from the person in
    violation of section 487, subdivision (c).
    The contention appellant raises is identical to that discussed and rejected in 
    Burns, supra
    , 
    172 Cal. App. 4th 1251
    . Notwithstanding that our trial court acted cautiously and
    instructed on simple theft, the evidence is not substantial in supporting an instruction on
    any form of larceny. The court in Burns discussed the necessity of giving the grand theft
    instruction in the context of a purse snatch. It reviewed the case law, in critical parts the
    same decisions appellant relies on here, and concluded, “where a person wrests away
    personal property from another person, who resists the effort to do so, the crime is robbery,
    not merely theft.” (Id. at p. 1257.) For robbery, something more is required than just the
    quantum of force necessary to accomplish the mere seizing of the property. (Id. at p. 1259;
    see also People v. Anderson (2011) 
    51 Cal. 4th 989
    , 995-996 (Anderson II) [citing this
    proposition and Burns with approval].) The determinative factor is the amount of force
    used, and all the force required to make the theft a robbery is “ ‘ “such force as is actually
    sufficient to overcome the victim’s resistance.” ’ ” (Ibid; People v. Lescallett (1981)
    
    123 Cal. App. 3d 487
    , 491.)
    In the instant case, B.D. described how after she took out her cell phone, appellant
    grabbed for it. Once appellant got his hand on it, both she and he were pulling on the
    phone at the same time, then they struggled over it. Appellant was able to wrest it away
    from her. Then before or after she got out of the van, she threw the yogurt container at
    him in an effort to recover her phone. As he pulled off in the van, she was standing
    outside screaming at him to return her phone to her. Appellant admitted at least some of
    these facts in his own testimony, testifying she was holding the cell phone in her hand
    when he forcefully wrest it right out of her hand. After he had possession of the cell
    phone, she continued to grab for it. He agreed even after B.D. left the van, she was yelling
    for the cell phone’s return. With this evidence, there was no error in failing sua sponte to
    give a lesser included offense instruction on grand theft from the person. The evidence
    was not substantial in demonstrating simple larceny or grand theft from the person. The
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    evidence does not support a reasonable inference appellant obtained the telephone
    peaceably when it was in contact with B.D.’s person without the use of force.
    Also theft becomes robbery if the perpetrator peaceably gains possession but resorts
    to force or fear while carrying away the loot. (People v. Cooper (1991) 
    53 Cal. 3d 1158
    ,
    1165, fn. 8; see also People v. 
    Anderson, supra
    , 51 Cal.4th at pp. 995-996.) The facts here
    indicate B.D. initially tried to retain control of her cell phone and grab it back. But she
    then desisted in seeking to obtain a return of her phone because she was frightened about
    what appellant might do to her if she remained in the van.
    There was no error in failing to charge the jury sua sponte as to a lesser included
    offense of grand theft from the person.
    Furthermore, even if the facts here supported instructions on grand theft from the
    person and petty theft, appellant is not entitled to a reversal. Any error in failing to instruct
    the jury on a lesser included offense is harmless when the jury necessarily decides the
    factual questions posed by the omitted instructions adversely to a defendant under other
    properly given instructions. (People v. Beames (2007) 
    40 Cal. 4th 907
    , 928.) While any
    instruction on larceny was unnecessary, the jury was charged with CALCRIM No. 1800,
    which set out all the elements of simple larceny. By determining appellant was guilty of
    the robbery, in lieu of petty theft, the jury necessarily determined that force or fear was
    used to secure B.D.’s cell phone. By returning the verdict of guilty of robbery, the jury
    necessarily resolved the issue of the use or force or fear against appellant.
    2. The trial court failed sua sponte to define the term “force” in its instructions to
    the jury.
    Appellant contends the trial court had the additional duty to instruct on the
    definition of “force,” since that word has a technical, legal meaning necessary to the jury’s
    understanding of whether appellant committed robbery or grand theft from the person.
    The contention also lacks merit.
    In People v. Morehead (2011) 
    191 Cal. App. 4th 765
    (Morehead), the court set out
    the relevant legal principles, as follows.
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    “ ‘ “[T]he trial court’s duty to see that the jurors are adequately informed on the law
    governing all elements of the case … is not always satisfied by a mere reading of wholly
    correct, requested instructions.” ’ (People v. Miller (1999) 
    69 Cal. App. 4th 190
    , 207.)
    ‘ “[T]he trial court has a sua sponte duty to give explanatory instructions even in the
    absence of a request when the terms in an instruction ‘have a “technical meaning peculiar
    to the law.” ’ [Citations.] No such duty is imposed when the terms ‘are commonly
    understood by those familiar with the English language. . . .’ ” ’ (Ibid.; see also [People v.]
    Anderson [( 1966)] 64 Cal.2d [633,] 639 [‘The law is settled that when terms have no
    technical meaning peculiar to the law, but are commonly understood by those familiar with
    the English language, instructions as to their meaning are not required.’].)” 
    (Morehead, supra
    , 191 Cal.App.4th at p. 687.)
    “ ‘The trial court must instruct even without request on the general principles of law
    relevant to and governing the case . . . [including] instructions on all of the elements of a
    charged offense.’ (People v. Cummings (1993) 
    4 Cal. 4th 1233
    , 1311, citation omitted.)
    Once the court has instructed on the general principles of law, a defendant must request
    additional instructions if he or she believes amplification or explanation is necessary.
    (People v. Maury (2003) 
    30 Cal. 4th 342
    , 425–426 (Maury); People v. 
    Anderson[, supra
    ,]
    64 Cal.2d [at p.] 639. . . .)” 
    (Morehead, supra
    , 191 Cal.App.4th at pp. 772-773.)
    At the outset, we hold there was a forfeiture. By charging the jury with the
    instruction in CALCRIM No. 1600, concerning robbery, the trial court advised the jury of
    all the legal principles openly and closely related to the elements of robbery. (People v.
    Boyer (2006) 
    38 Cal. 4th 412
    , 468-469 [a trial court must instruct on the general principles
    of law openly and closely connected with the case and necessary for the jury’s
    understanding of the case]. If appellant was concerned with the jury’s ability to discern
    whether the force used was too slight to constitute robbery, it was incumbent upon him to
    request a further instruction. When a defendant has failed to request an amplification or
    explanation of instructions, error cannot be predicated upon the trial court’s failure to give
    the instruction on its own motion.
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    In any event, it is settled that the terms force and fear as used in the definition of the
    crime of robbery have no technical meaning peculiar to the law and must be presumed to
    be within the understanding of jurors. (People v. 
    Anderson, supra
    , 64 Cal.2d at p. 640;
    cited for this proposition in People v. Griffin (2004) 
    33 Cal. 4th 1015
    , 1025-1026 [the term
    force need not be defined in a prosecution for forcible rape; there is no technical meaning
    peculiar to the law in that offense].) Accordingly, no further jury instruction defining force
    was required. The decision in People v. 
    Anderson, supra
    , 
    64 Cal. 2d 633
    was filed over
    forty years ago. However, that does not mean it has lost its precedential value. (Auto
    Equity Sales, Inc. v. Superior Court (1962) 
    57 Cal. 2d 450
    , 455; see In re Baert (1988)
    
    205 Cal. App. 3d 514
    , 520, fn. 2.) The court in Anderson 
    II, supra
    51 Cal.4th at page 986,
    did not change this well-established rule regarding the necessity of charging the jury as to
    force when it said in dicta robbery requires that “the perpetrator exert some quantum of
    force in excess of that ‘necessary to accomplish the mere seizing of the property.’ ”
    3. Ineffective assistance of trial counsel.
    Appellant contends trial counsel’s failure to request a jury instruction defining the
    element of “force” constituted the ineffective assistance of trial counsel.
    “To prevail on a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, a defendant must show
    both that counsel’s performance was deficient and that the deficient performance
    prejudiced the defense. [Citations.] Counsel’s performance was deficient if the
    representation fell below an objective standard of reasonableness under prevailing
    professional norms. [Citation.] Prejudice exists where there is a reasonable probability
    that, but for counsel’s errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.
    [Citation.] (People v. Benavides (2005) 
    35 Cal. 4th 69
    , 92-93.)
    There is no deficit performance here.
    Grand theft may be charged in the discretion of the prosecutor where there is theft
    of property of any value “from the person,” or the value of the property exceeds $950.
    (§ 487, subds. (a) & (c).) Grand theft is an alternate felony-misdemeanor punishable by a
    year in the county jail or, pursuant to section 1170, subdivision (h), by imprisonment in
    state prison or in a county jail for 16 months, two or three years. (§ 489, as amended by
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    Stats. 2011, ch.15, § 371, eff. Apr. 4, 2011, operative Oct. 1, 2011.) Section 484 defines
    simple theft or larceny. The punishment for petty theft is a fine not exceeding $1,000 or
    by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding six months or both. (§ 490.)
    As we indicated ante there is no substantial evidence of a lack of force to support
    jury instructions on simple larceny and grand theft from the person. As the jury
    determined the issue of force against appellant, appellant cannot show prejudice, i.e., that
    giving the instruction would have resulted in a different outcome. Thus, his claim of
    ineffective trial counsel also fails.
    In any event, even if trial counsel should have made the request, this one failure
    would not secure a reversal for appellant. Trial counsel focused on the most serious of the
    charges lodged against appellant and ably managed to obtain a complete acquittal of the
    many and serious sex-related offenses. Appellant can hardly complain about trial
    counsel’s representation when the results of her representation permitted him to walk away
    after this trial with only the one robbery conviction and a grant of formal probation. Her
    trial performance was near miraculous.
    4. Section 2900.5 conduct credit.
    Appellant contends he is entitled to one additional day of presentence conduct
    credit. The Attorney General agrees the point has merit, and so do we.
    At sentencing, appellant was granted 337 days of section 2900.5 presentence credit,
    consisting of 294 days of custody credit and 43 days of conduct credit.
    Appellant was arrested on October 13, 2011, and was sentenced on August 6, 2012,
    making his actual custody confinement 294 days. His conduct credit is computed at
    15 percent as the robbery offense is a violent felony. (§§ 667.5, subd. (c)(9), 2933.1.)
    When we multiply 294 days by 15 percent, we obtain a result of 44 days of conduct credit.
    Thus, appellant was entitled to 338 days of total section 2900.5 credit, consisting of 294
    days of custody credit and 44 days of conduct credit.
    We will order the additional day of conduct credit appellant requests.
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    DISPOSITION
    The judgment is modified to grant appellant 338 days of section 2900.5 presentence
    credit, consisting of 294 days of custody credit and 44 days of conduct credit.
    In all other respects, the judgment is affirmed.
    The trial court shall have its clerk amend the order of judgment to include the
    additional day of presentence conduct credit and send the amended abstract of judgment to
    the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
    NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS
    KLEIN, P. J.
    We concur:
    KITCHING, J.
    ALDRICH, J.
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