Does a combined sentence of consecutive determinate terms need to be pronounced?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Roseberry, 271 Cal.Rptr.3d 504, 57 Cal.App.5th 543 (Cal. App. 2020):

Our resolution of defendant's first claim also resolves his second claim. Because the record is unclear if defendant was paroled before imposition of sentence (and therefore whether defendant was serving a term of imprisonment at the time sentence was pronounced), we cannot say that the trial court should have pronounced a combined sentence of consecutive determinate terms. (Cf. People v. Nunez (2008) 167 Cal.App.4th 761, 765, 84 Cal.Rptr.3d 397 [" [M]ultiple consecutive determinate terms must be combined into a single, "aggregate term of imprisonment for all [such] convictions" [citation] that merges all terms to be served consecutively "], italics added.)

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