P. v. Pritchett
In 1992, Calvin Dural Pritchett, Jr. entered a negotiated guilty plea to second degree murder (Pen. Code, 187, subd. (a)) and admitted he personally used a firearm (id., 12022.5, subd. (a)). The court sentenced him to prison for 20 years to life: 15 years to life for murder enhanced by the five-year upper term for personal firearm use. The court ordered Pritchett to pay a $10,000 restitution fine. (Former Gov. Code, 13967, repealed by Stats. 2003, ch 230, 2, eff. Aug. 11, 2003; Pen. Code, 2085.5.) On August 28, 2006, Pritchett filed a petition for writ of coram nobis. In the coram nobis petition, Pritchett claimed that his guilty plea was obtained through false representations by his trial counsel. The trial court denied the coram nobis petition.
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