Does the forfeiture doctrine apply to a sentence that was improperly imposed?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Granado, A141905 (Cal. App. 2015):
this issue in the trial court "because the ex post facto violation resulted in an unauthorized sentence." An exception to the forfeiture doctrine does exist for the " 'unauthorized sentence' "those that "could not lawfully be imposed under any circumstance in the particular case." (People v. Scott (1994) 9 Cal.4th 331, 354.) However, as we shall explain, this exception has no application here.
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