P. v. Price
Defendant Scott Richard Price, Jr., appeals following the trial court’s order denying his petition for redesignation of sentence pursuant to Penal Code section 1170.18. (Further undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code.) He does not challenge that order. Instead, he seeks the correction ofa clerical error committed at the time of his original sentencing: although the trial court orally imposed four years of probation, the minute order wrongly shows that term as five years.
The Attorney General concedes that the minute order is in error, but asserts that defendant’s contention is forfeited because it is untimely and unrelated to defendant’s notice of appeal. The Attorney General acknowledges that if the contention is not forfeited, the relief defendant requests is proper.
Because we can and must correct a clerical error in the record whenever we become aware of it, the Attorney General’s forfeiture claim fails. We will order the re
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