People v. Haywood CA1/4

CourtCalifornia Court of Appeal
DecidedNovember 10, 2022
DocketA165856
StatusUnpublished

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Filed 11/9/22 P. v. Haywood CA1/4 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN OFFICIAL REPORTS California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule 8.1115(b). This opinion has not been certified for publication or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115.

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION FOUR

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, A165856 v. RUFUS MAXIMILLION (Tulare County HAYWOOD, Super. Ct. No. PCF350701) Defendant and Appellant.

In this domestic abuse case, defendant Rufus Maximillion Haywood argues that his conviction must be reversed and the case dismissed with prejudice because the trial court’s denial of his Penal Code1 section 1381 motion to dismiss violated his constitutional right to a speedy trial. He also argues that an electronic device search condition of his probation is unconstitutionally overbroad. Lastly, Haywood contends that the trial court violated his state and federal constitutional rights to due process when it imposed on him a court operations assessment fee and a criminal conviction assessment fee without first determining his ability to pay those assessments.

All further statutory references are to the Penal Code, unless 1

otherwise indicated. We conclude that Haywood’s claim of a speedy trial violation did not survive his guilty plea, and that his challenge to the assessments was forfeited by his failure to object in the trial court. We agree, however, that the electronic device search condition is unconstitutionally overbroad because it is not narrowly tailored to the government’s legitimate interest in Haywood’s reformation and rehabilitation. Accordingly, we will strike the electronic device search condition and remand the case to the trial court to consider whether the condition can be narrowed in a manner that will allow it to pass constitutional muster. In all other aspects, we affirm the judgment. BACKGROUND In March 2017, Haywood physically assaulted his wife on two separate occasions. On the latter occasion, Haywood’s wife tried to run outside and call 9-1-1, but Haywood took her cell phone and prevented her from leaving the house before physically assaulting her. In July 2018, the Tulare County District Attorney charged Haywood by information with two counts of injuring a spouse, cohabitant, boyfriend, girlfriend or child’s parent after prior conviction (§ 273.5, subd. (f)(1)); one count of assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury (§ 245, subd. (a)(4)); one count of false imprisonment by violence (§ 236); and one count of interference with a wireless communication device (§ 591.5). In December 2019, while serving a 16-month sentence in Ventura County jail for an unrelated crime, Haywood mailed a section 1381 demand to the Tulare County District Attorney, demanding that prosecution bring the matter to trial or sentencing within the statutory 90-day period. Almost a year later, in November 2020, Haywood filed a motion to dismiss for the Tulare County District Attorney’s failure to bring him to trial following his section 1381 demand. The trial court denied the motion, finding

2 good cause for the delay in bringing Haywood to trial due to his health issues and the COVID-19 pandemic. In January 2021, Haywood pled no contest to all counts in the Tulare County matter in exchange for four years of probation and a suspended state prison sentence of six years and four months. The trial court imposed judgment the following month. Included in the terms and conditions of Haywood’s probation was a condition that he submit to warrantless searches of any electronic device under his control at any time. The court also imposed a $200 court operations assessment fee and a $150 criminal conviction assessment fee. Haywood timely appealed from the judgment. DISCUSSION I. Right to Speedy Trial Violation Under Section 1381 Section 1381 provides, in pertinent part: “Whenever a defendant has been convicted, in any court of this state, of the commission of a felony or misdemeanor and . . . has entered upon a term of imprisonment in a county jail for a period of more than 90 days or has been committed to and placed in a county jail for more than 90 days as a condition of probation . . . ,” he must be brought to trial or for sentencing in a pending criminal proceeding within 90 days after he demands such action. (§ 1381.) This section is “ ‘supplementary to and a construction of’ the state constitutional speedy trial guarantee.” (People v. Martinez (2000) 22 Cal.4th 750, 766.) Haywood contends the trial court violated his constitutional and statutory right to a speedy trial when it denied his motion to dismiss following the District Attorney’s failure to comply with his section 1381 demand. We agree with the People that Haywood’s claim of speedy trial violation did not survive the entry of his no contest plea.

3 The issues cognizable on appeal from a guilty or no contest plea are limited. (§ 1237.5; People v. Hoffard (1995) 10 Cal.4th 1170, 1177.) “ ‘[A] plea of guilty admits all matters essential to the conviction.’ ” (People v. Hayton (1979) 95 Cal.App.3d 413, 416.) “For that reason, . . . issues going to the determination of guilt or innocence are not cognizable on appeal; review is instead limited to issues going to the jurisdiction of the court or the legality of the proceedings, including the constitutional validity of the plea.” (People v. Hoffard, supra, at p. 1178; see People v. Turner (1985) 171 Cal.App.3d 116, 125 [“A defendant thereafter can raise only those questions which go to the power of the state to try him despite his guilt”].)2 A defendant’s speedy trial claim is an “issue going to guilt or innocence,” and thus is not cognizable on appeal from a no contest plea. (People v. Hernandez (1992) 6 Cal.App.4th 1355, 1359–1360.) “The essence of a defendant’s speedy trial or due process claim in the usual case is that the passage of time has frustrated his ability to establish his innocence. The resolution of a speedy trial or due process issue necessitates a careful assessment of the particular facts of a case in order that the question of prejudice may be determined.” (People v. Hayton, supra, 95 Cal.App.3d at p. 419, fn. omitted.) But a guilty plea moots a defendant’s claim that the passage of time frustrated his power to establish innocence because it admits all matters essential to the conviction, and the defendant cannot establish prejudice. (Ibid.; People v. Hernandez, supra, 6 Cal.App.4th at p. 1359.)

2 Although Haywood pled no contest to the charges against him, “the legal effect of a no contest plea to a crime punishable as a felony is ‘the same as that of a plea of guilty for all purposes.’ ” (People v. Miller (2022) 78 Cal.App.5th 1051, 1058, italics in original.) Thus, a defendant’s no contest plea admits to every element of the charged crime. (Ibid.; Wilkinson v. Zelen (2008) 167 Cal.App.4th 37, 46 [same for no contest pleas to misdemeanors].)

4 This is true even for statutory speedy trial claims. Although it is not necessary to demonstrate prejudice if a statutory speedy trial claim is pursued before a conviction is obtained, a defendant must establish prejudice if he waits to pursue appellate relief until after he has been convicted. (People v. Martinez, supra, 22 Cal.4th at p. 769.) “Prejudice becomes an issue for a statutory speedy trial claim only when the defendant waits until after the judgment to obtain appellate review.

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