Does the Court have the power to correct clerical errors in a judgment?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Funes, A150997 (Cal. App. 2018):

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) 147 Cal.App.4th 380, 389.) "Where there is a discrepancy between the oral pronouncement of judgment and the minute order or the abstract of judgment, the oral pronouncement controls." (Id. at p. 385.)

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