People v. Sierra CA2/5 ( 2016 )

Filed 7/1/16 P. v. Sierra CA2/5
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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT
DIVISION FIVE
THE PEOPLE, B266671
Plaintiff and Respondent, (Los Angeles County
Super. Ct. No. KA027340)
v.
PATRICK MICHAEL SIERRA,
Defendant and Appellant.
APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, William C.
Ryan, Judge. Affirmed.
Richard Lennon, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and
Appellant.
Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney
General, Lance E. Winters, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Michael R. Johnsen and
Mary Sanchez, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
This appeal presents the question whether excess custody credit can be used to
reduce or eliminate the one-year misdemeanor parole period mandated by Penal Code
section 1170.18, subdivision (d).1 Defendant, Patrick Michael Sierra, was convicted in
1996 of petty theft with a prior theft-related conviction. (Former § 666; Stats. 1993, ch.
611, § 10, p. 3513.) The jury found true allegations that defendant had sustained two
prior serious felony convictions. (§§ 667, subd. (b)-(i), 1170.12.) The jury further found
defendant had previously served prison terms for those convictions. (§ 667.5, subd. (b).)
Defendant was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. (§ 1170.12, subd. (c)(2).) On
appeal, we remanded for reconsideration of defendant’s sentence in light of People v.
Superior Court (Romero) (1996) 13 Cal. 4th 497, 529-530. (People v. Sierra (Aug. 8,
1997, B103092) [nonpub. opn.].) On remand, the trial court again sentenced defendant to
25 years to life in prison. We affirmed the judgment on appeal. (People v. Sierra (Oct. 8,
1998, B118322) [nonpub. opn.].)
On January 26, 2015, defendant filed a section 1170.18, subdivision (a)
resentencing petition. On August 18, 2015, the trial court granted the petition, designated
defendant’s conviction a misdemeanor and resentenced him to 364 days in the county jail
with 364 days’ credit. The court ordered defendant be subject to a one-year period of
parole. (§ 1170.18, subd. (d).) The trial court declined to apply defendant’s excess
custody credit to reduce the one-year parole period.
We affirm the trial court’s ruling. As our Supreme Court held in People v. Morales
(June 16, 2016, S228030) __ Cal.4th __, __ [2016 Cal. LEXIS 4001], excess credit for
times served cannot be credited against the section 1170.18, subdivision (d) parole
period.
1 Further statutory references are to the Penal Code.
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The trial court’s August 18, 2015 order is affirmed.
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TURNER, P.J.
We concur:
BAKER, J.
RAPHAEL, 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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