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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