In re Hill CA4/2

• Court: California Court of Appeal
• Decided: February 10, 2015
• Docket: E062128
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

Filed 2/10/15 In re Hill CA4/2

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION TWO

In re JEFFREY ANDRE HILL, E062128

on Habeas Corpus. (Super.Ct.No. WHCSS1400333)

OPINION

ORIGINAL PROCEEDINGS; petition for writ of habeas corpus. Petition granted

in part and denied in part.

Jeffrey Andre Hill, in pro. per., for Petitioner.

Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, and Jennifer L. Heinisch, Deputy Attorney

General, for Respondent.

This court has reviewed the petition and supporting documents, and has requested

and received an informal response from the Attorney General. In accordance with the

Attorney General’s concession and agreement, we grant relief.

Petitioner has been found suitable for parole but has not been released as the

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) believes that he has not

1 yet served the required portion of his sentence. First, although some of the

documentation reflects that one of his two sentences for convictions under Penal Code

section 4502 was to be served concurrently with his term for murder, the actual

transcripts reflect that both terms were ordered to be served consecutively to that term

and to each other. Indeed, the statute requires this result.

However, the CDCR’s position is based upon the assumption that the two terms

under Penal Code section 4502 are fully consecutive to each other. This is not the case.

The second term was subject to the “one-third the middle term” calculation under Penal

Code section 1170.1, subdivision (c). (People v. Venegas (1994) 25 Cal.App.4th 1731.)

The Attorney General agrees and notes that the three-year term imposed for one of

the Penal Code section 4502 convictions should be the base term, while a consecutive

one-year term should be imposed for the second such conviction. We are in accordance

with this calculation. Hence, petitioner is subject to a determinate term of four years, not

five.

DISPOSITION

The petition for writ of habeas corpus is GRANTED in this respect, and insofar as

Petitioner seeks concurrent sentencing, is DENIED. The matter is remanded to the

Superior Court of San Bernardino County with directions to issue a corrected abstract of

judgment in case No. OCR6755 reflecting a one-year term pursuant to Penal Code

section 1170.1, subdivision (c), to run consecutively to the three-year term imposed in

case number OCR6923.

2 This opinion shall be final forthwith.

NOT TO BE PUBLISHED

KING J. We concur:

HOLLENHORST Acting P. J.

RICHLI J.