People v. Goodner

7 Cal. App. 4th 1324, 9 Cal. Rptr. 2d 543, 92 Daily Journal DAR 9388, 92 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 6004, 1992 Cal. App. LEXIS 858
CourtCalifornia Court of Appeal
DecidedJuly 6, 1992
DocketH008449
StatusPublished
Cited by15 cases

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People v. Goodner, 7 Cal. App. 4th 1324, 9 Cal. Rptr. 2d 543, 92 Daily Journal DAR 9388, 92 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 6004, 1992 Cal. App. LEXIS 858 (Cal. Ct. App. 1992).

Opinion

Opinion

COTTLE, Acting P. J.

I

Introduction

In People v. Goodner (1990) 226 Cal.App.3d 609 [276 Cal.Rptr. 542] (hereafter Goodner 1), this court reversed the trial court’s orders striking the prior serious felony conviction allegations against defendant Gregory Goodner involving priors No. 69112 and No. 76965 from Santa Clara County (hereafter 69112 and 76965), reinstated the allegations, and remanded this case to the trial court for further proceedings consistent with the views expressed in that opinion. The judgment was affirmed in all other respects. (226 Cal.App.3d at pp. 619-620.) On remand, defendant waived jury trial and proceeded with a court trial on the truth of those two prior serious felony allegations. After the trial court denied defendant’s motion to withdraw his guilty plea and rejected his plea of once in jeopardy, it found true the prior serious felony allegations. Defendant’s sentence of 25 years in state prison included an additional 10 years for the 2 prior serious felony enhancements. The case returns to this court where defendant contends (1) his statement to *1327 the probation officer contained in the 69112 probation report was inadmissible “on constitutional grounds as a violation of his privilege against self-incrimination” (capitalization omitted), (2) the evidence was insufficient to establish that 69112 was a burglary of an inhabited dwelling, (3) the trial court abused its discretion in refusing to consider imposing a one-year rather than a five-year enhancement with regard to 76965, and (4) he was subjected to double jeopardy “when, after appeal, he was tried for the second time on the previously stricken prior felonies.” (Capitalization omitted.) For the reasons stated below, we shall affirm.

II

Facts

Defendant pleaded guilty to robbery and admitted two prior serious felony allegations; he does not challenge the legal sufficiency of the plea or those admissions. He does challenge the result of the trial on remand, which concerned the truth of two other prior serious felony allegations. The relevant evidence as to the challenged priors is summarized below.

In 69112 the evidence showed that defendant indicated a willingness to enter a plea to second degree burglary and that as to this stipulated charge, defendant entered a guilty plea, in that “on or about the 7th day of April, 1978, [he] entered a house located at 644[1] Mt. Willington (sic), San Jose, California with intent to commit theft therein.” In the portion of the report labeled “Defendant’s Statement: (Attached)” the probation officer summarized defendant’s statement regarding several burglaries, including the one underlying 69112. As to that offense, the probation officer recounted defendant’s statement as follows: “On April 11, 1978, after the defendant consumed a six-pack of beer and smoked a marijuana cigarette, he chose to burglarize a home with James Douglas Ward. While inside the victim’s residence, for approximately five minutes, the defendant poured some vodka into a flask, while Ward ransacked the home. They later purchased food with the money Ward stole and as to the jewelry, Ward threw it away because it was of little value.” In addition, the trial court read into the record a statement “purportedly [from appellant] Goodner” in 69112 1 in which defendant said his friend Ward told him “he knew of a house where nobody was home” where they could get either some beer or “booze” and that once they had broken into the house, “Doug went through the bedroom. I went and got some booze from a cabinet. Doug got some pot and $20.00 and some earrings from the bedroom. We then left the house and went back to the donut shop.”

*1328 In 76965 the preliminary examination transcript contained uncontradicted testimony of the victim, Leland Evans, that on August 22, 1980, he lived in a “single family ranch style home” at 19731 Almadén Road, San Jose. The probation report included a summary of facts describing the premises entered and burglarized as the residence of Leland Evans and defendant’s statement to the probation officer agreeing with the probation officer’s summary and admitting that he burglarized the Evans residence.

Ill

Discussion

A. Admissibility of Defendant’s Statements in Probation Report in 69112

With regard to 69112, defendant contends the trial court erred in relying upon his statements to his probation officer, which are contained in the probation department report, to establish that he had been convicted of a prior residential burglary for the purpose of sentence enhancement under Penal Code section 667. 2 In arguing that his statements to the probation officer in 69112 are inadmissible against him in this subsequent criminal proceeding, defendant claims that, because the statements were “legislatively compelled,” their introduction into evidence violates his privilege against self-incrimination. Nothing in defendant’s argument convinces this court that defendant’s statements in the probation report could not be used to prove the elements of the prior conviction. (See Goodner I, supra, 226 Cal.App.3d at pp. 613-616; accord, People v. Garcia (1989) 216 Cal.App.3d 233, 236-238 [264 Cal.Rptr. 662].)

Section 667, subdivision (a) imposes a five-year sentence enhancement for each proved prior conviction of a serious felony identified in sections 667, subdivision (d) and 1192.7, subdivision (c)(18). The latter section includes as a serious felony “burglary of an inhabited dwelling house ... or inhabited portion of any other building.” The People sought to prove that defendant’s prior conviction in 69112 was indeed a residential burglary by offering that portion of the probation report in which the probation officer reports that the defendant said he went to the victim’s “residence," “burglarize[d]” it and took some vodka and some jewelry and defendant’s attached statement in which he admitted that his accomplice took some “pot and $20.00 and some earrings from the bedroom.”

In Goodner I, we held that “where the nature of the proceeding is ‘to determine whether a defendant has suffered a prior serious felony conviction *1329 (not to determine whether he is guilty of that earlier offense)’ ...[,] the defendant’s statements contained in the probation report . . . , albeit hearsay, are . . . admissible as an exception to the hearsay rule to explain his admissions.” (226 Cal.App.3d at p. 616, fns. omitted.)

This conclusion was based on the Supreme Court’s ruling in People v. Guerrero (1988) 44 Cal.3d 343, 355 [243 Cal.Rptr. 688, 748 P.2d 1150], that a trial court may look beyond the bare judgment of conviction to the entire record, to determine whether the conviction involved the burglary of an inhabited residence. The Supreme Court explained, “Such a rule is both fair and reasonable.

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