People v. Summerise CA5

Filed 9/24/15 P. v. Summerise CA5

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FIFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

THE PEOPLE, F068314 Plaintiff and Respondent, (Super. Ct. No. F11906128) v.

ROZELLE ANTHONY SUMMERISE, JR., OPINION Defendant and Appellant.

THE COURT* APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Fresno County. Jonathan B. Conklin, Judge. Ross Thomas, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, and Julie A. Hokans, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent. -ooOoo- Defendant Rozelle Anthony Summerise, Jr. was convicted by jury trial of first degree residential burglary (Pen. Code, §§ 459, 460, subd. (a))1 for an offense he

* Before Gomes, Acting P.J., Poochigian, J. and Peña, J.

committed on October 20, 2011. The trial court sentenced him to 17 years in prison and imposed various fines and fees, including two $280 restitution fines pursuant to sections 1202.4, subdivision (b) and 1202.45. On appeal, defendant contends the trial court inadvertently imposed an unauthorized sentence and violated ex post facto principles when it imposed the $280 restitution fines rather than the statutory minimum fines of $200 in effect at the time he committed the crime in October 2011.2 We disagree with this contention. “Under the United States Constitution, ‘“‘any statute … which makes more burdensome the punishment for a crime, after its commission … is prohibited as ex post facto.’”’ [Citations.] The ex post facto clause of the state Constitution is in accord.” (People v. Saelee (1995) 35 Cal.App.4th 27, 30.) The prohibition against ex post facto laws applies to restitution fines, which constitute punishment. (People v. Souza (2012)

1 All statutory references are to the Penal Code. 2 When defendant committed the offense in this case, section 1202.4 provided in pertinent part: “(b) In every case where a person is convicted of a crime, the court shall impose a separate and additional restitution fine, unless it finds compelling and extraordinary reasons for not doing so, and states those reasons on the record. [¶] (1) The restitution fine shall be set at the discretion of the court and commensurate with the seriousness of the offense, but shall not be less than two hundred dollars ($200), and not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), if the person is convicted of a felony, and shall not be less than one hundred dollars ($100), and not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), if the person is convicted of a misdemeanor. [¶] (2) In setting a felony restitution fine, the court may determine the amount of the fine as the product of two hundred dollars ($200) multiplied by the number of years of imprisonment the defendant is ordered to serve, multiplied by the number of felony counts of which the defendant is convicted.” (§ 1202.4, subd. (b)(1), as amended by Stats. 2011, ch. 45, § 1, italics added.) Section 1202.45 provided in part: “In every case where a person is convicted of a crime and whose sentence includes a period of parole, the court shall at the time of imposing the restitution fine pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1202.4, assess an additional parole revocation restitution fine in the same amount as that imposed pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1202.4.” (§ 1202.45, as amended by Stats. 2007, ch. 302, § 15, italics added.)