California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from The People v. Ramirez, E048321, No. FSB702190 (Cal. App. 2011):
to protect against the eventuality that the defendant's sentence might one day be reduced on direct appeal or habeas corpus. (See, e.g., People v. Garnica (1994) 29 Cal.App.4th 1558, 1564.)
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