Does the Court have jurisdiction to increase the sentence of a convicted murderer after the execution of the original sentence has begun?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Haggard, F071691 (Cal. App. 2017):
Haggard relies on the rule that a trial court generally lacks jurisdiction to increase a sentence after execution of the sentence has begun. (People v. Howard (1997) 16 Cal.4th 1081, 1089.) He concedes that the court can correct a clerical error at any time, but he says what happened in this case was a judicial error. "[A] judicial error is one that
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