Can the Court of Appeal correct a clerical error in a judgment?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Rodriguez, C075491 (Cal. App. 2016):
Appellate courts have the inherent power to correct clerical errors in a judgment at any time. (People v. Mitchell (2001) 26 Cal.4th 181, 185.) "Rendition of the judgment is normally an oral pronouncement, and the abstract of judgment cannot add to, or modify, the judgment, but only purports to digest and summarize it." (People v. Zackery (2007)
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