People v. Bodjack CA1/1
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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT
DIVISION ONE
THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, A139575 v. KEITH ANDREW BODJACK, (Lake County Super. Ct. No. CR931820) Defendant and Appellant.
In this case, defendant appeals his sentence under Penal Code1 section 654. He contends the trial court erred in sentencing him consecutively for vandalism after imposing a custody sentence for burglary. The facts suggest the vandalism of the Hi- Way Grocery store took place during the burglary by breaking glass to steal liquor from the grocery store. The Attorney General has conceded the consecutive sentence violates section 654. We agree and remand for resentencing. STATEMENT OF THE CASE The Lake County District Attorney filed an information in this matter on April 26, 2013, amending it on June 26. It charged defendant with burglary and vandalism worth more than $400 at the Hi-Way Grocery store (Pen. Code, §§ 459, 594, counts one & two), burglary and vandalism of the New Marina Market (§§ 459, 594, counts three & four), and vandalism of the Tower Mart (§ 594, count five).
1 All further undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code unless otherwise indicated.
The jury trial began on June 26, 2013. A verdict was returned finding defendant guilty of counts one through four, and acquitting him on count five. The trial court sentenced defendant on August 20, 2013. On count one, he received a jail term of two years, the midterm for section 459. He was given a consecutive eight-month term on count two, which was one-third the term in count one. The sentences on counts three and four ran concurrently with count one. Defendant filed a timely appeal on August 20, 2013. STATEMENT OF FACTS In the early hours of February 23, 2013, a man later identified as defendant, broke the glass doors of two grocery stores in Lake County. The breaking and entry at the Hi- Way Grocery store took place at 1:24 a.m. Defendant took beer among the products stolen in the theft. The door repair cost the store $680. (Counts one & two.) With respect to counts three and four, defendant broke the glass doors at New Marina Market. This took place at 3:30 a.m. The door replacement cost the owner $1,707. In the afternoon on the same day as these thefts, Patrick Lynch, owner of Hi-Way Grocery store, noticed defendant had entered the market. He resembled the burglar based on the surveillance photo obtained during the crime. Lynch contacted the police. One of the friends of defendant told Lynch’s employee and Lake County Deputy Sheriff Jay Vanoven that Bodjack admitted breaking into the Hi-Way Grocery store on the date in question. Defendant was arrested on a warrant for the offenses. At sentencing, the trial judge imposed a consecutive sentence on the vandalism conviction in count two. It was consecutive to the two-year sentence for burglary on count one. The court sentenced defendant on counts three and four concurrently to the sentence on count one. In other words, all the custody time was concurrent to count one, except the consecutive eight months on count two.
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