What is the test for an oral pronouncement of a sentence in a criminal case?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Bradley, D068632 (Cal. App. 2016):
"In a criminal case, it is the oral pronouncement of sentence that constitutes the judgment." (People v. Scott (2012) 203 Cal.App.4th 1303, 1324, italics omitted; see, e.g.,
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