P. v. Sharif CA4/1
Abduqadir M. Sharif agreed to a plea bargain requiring him to plead guilty to a specified offense in exchange for a specified jail term. In addition to imposing the specified jail term, the trial court imposed a discretionary penal fine. The conviction, which qualified as a prior strike conviction, was subsequently used as a sentence enhancement in a second case.
Sharif contends the penal fine violated the terms of his plea bargain in the first case. Consequently, he contends we must reverse the judgments in both cases and allow him to withdraw his plea. (See People v. Walker (1991) 54 Cal.3d 1013, 1028 (Walker), overruled on other grounds by People v. Villalobos (2012) 54 Cal.4th 177, 183 (Villalobos).)
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