P. v. Salinas CA2/7
Efrain Salinas, Jr. appeals from a judgment of conviction entered after a jury trial. The jury convicted Salinas of assault with a deadly weapon, a car, and found true the allegations he suffered a prior serious felony conviction and a prior conviction for which he served a prison term. Salinas contends the trial court erred in denying his motion to bifurcate the trial on his prior convictions as untimely without evaluating the prejudice he would suffer from the jury hearing evidence of his prior felony convictions. We agree, but find the error was harmless.
Salinas also contends the trial court erred in applying the 15 percent limitation on accrual of his presentence conduct credits applicable to violent felonies, and requests correction of a clerical error in the abstract of judgment. We modify the judgment to award Salinas the full 384 days of presentence conduct credits and order that the abstract of judgment be corrected. We affirm the judgment as modified.
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