People v. Guzman CA4/2 ( 2014 )


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  • Filed 10/23/14 P. v. Guzman CA4/2
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    IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
    FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT
    DIVISION TWO
    THE PEOPLE,
    Plaintiff and Respondent,                                       E058456
    v.                                                                       (Super.Ct.No. RIF1102483)
    JOSE WILSON ROJAS GUZMAN,                                                OPINION
    Defendant and Appellant.
    APPEAL from the Superior Court of Riverside County. Elisabeth Sichel, Judge.
    Affirmed.
    Laura Schaefer, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and
    Appellant.
    Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney
    General, Julie L. Garland, Assistant Attorney General, and A. Natasha Cortina and
    Brendon W. Marshall, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
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    I. INTRODUCTION
    A jury found defendant and appellant Jose Wilson Rojas Guzman guilty of
    committing five sex offenses against three girls under the age of 14 years, namely, Does
    1, 2, and 3. Defendant was sentenced under the “One Strike” law (Pen. Code, § 667.61)1
    to life without the possibility of parole on count 1 and 25-year-to-life terms on counts 4
    and 5. He was sentenced to four years on count 2 and one year on count 3, both terms to
    run consecutive to count 1.
    Defendant claims the trial court abused its discretion and violated his due process
    rights in allowing the prosecution to amend the information following the close of its
    case-in-chief to charge him with assaulting Doe 1 with great bodily injury (§ 245, subd.
    (a)(1)) in lieu of her attempted murder, as originally charged. The amendment was
    allowed after the court indicated it would grant defendant’s section 1118.1 motion to
    dismiss the attempted murder charge based on insufficient evidence of intent to kill. We
    find no abuse of discretion or due process violation in the allowance of the amendment.
    The evidence adduced at the preliminary hearing adequately notified defendant he could
    be charged with assaulting Doe 1 with great bodily injury, in lieu of or in addition to her
    attempted murder, and defendant had a fair opportunity to defend against the amended
    charge.
    Defendant also claims (1) his conviction in count 3 for committing an attempted
    forcible lewd act (§§ 664, 288, subd. (b)(1)) on Doe 2 must be reversed because the jury
    1   All further statutory references are to the Penal Code unless otherwise indicated.
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    was inadequately instructed on the force or fear element of the crime; (2) he was
    unlawfully sentenced under the One Strike law (§ 667.61) on counts 1, 4, and 5 because
    he was not convicted of any qualifying offenses; and, finally, (3) a $200 parole
    revocation fine was improperly imposed, given his life sentence without the possibility of
    parole. We also find these claims without merit, and affirm the judgment.
    II. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
    A. The Sexual Assault of Doe 1 (May 7-8, 2011)
    On May 7, 2011, around 9:00 p.m., nine-year-old Doe 1’s mother went to work,
    leaving Doe 1 and her brother and sister home alone in the family’s apartment. After
    falling asleep, Doe 1 woke to a man, later identified as defendant, covering her mouth,
    telling her to be quiet. Doe 1 recalled little about what happened next; she recalled only
    that the man carried her out of her apartment, took her to his apartment, placed her on a
    bed, and began strangling her. She fell asleep again and awoke as defendant left her
    lying in a grassy area near a residential street, in the middle of the night, more than two
    miles from her apartment.
    Feeling dizzy and confused, Doe 1 knocked on doors in the neighborhood where
    defendant left her, looking for help. She told a woman she was lost and did not recall
    how she got there. The police were called and Doe 1 was taken to the hospital. She had
    extensive injuries, including severe vaginal and anal tears requiring surgery. She also
    had a broken hyoid bone in her throat and petechial hemorrhages on her scalp, ears, neck,
    throat, upper chest, and back arms, all consistent with having been strangled. The
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    petechial hemorrhages in the back of her throat were consistent with forced oral
    copulation.
    At Doe 1’s apartment, police found an open window and its screen was propped
    against the exterior wall. Defendant’s fingerprints were on the apartment front doorknob
    and bathroom doorknob. A surveillance camera at Doe 1’s apartment complex showed a
    man in dark clothing walking up the stairs toward Doe 1’s apartment, then walking down
    the stairs with Doe 1 in his arms. Months earlier, defendant rented a room in Doe 1’s
    apartment and moved out two to three months before Doe 1 was abducted and sexually
    assaulted.
    A surveillance camera at a residence near where Doe 1 was found showed a dark-
    colored truck driving with its headlights off, the same truck driving in the other direction
    approximately 10 minutes later, and Doe 1 looking for help. The next day, police
    detained defendant as he was driving a black Ford F-150 pickup truck. A replica of a
    handgun was found in the truck.
    Defendant agreed to be questioned at the police station. While there, he drank
    from a styrofoam cup, and police extracted a DNA sample from the saliva on the cup.
    The DNA from the saliva on the cup matched DNA from defendant’s blood sample and
    DNA from semen in Doe 1’s anus. After the police collected the cup for evidence,
    defendant became visibly upset and said: “Oh, God. I asked for . . . that cup of water.”
    In defendant’s apartment, police found four pairs of girls’ underwear in the pocket
    of a sweatshirt, including the pair Doe 1 was wearing the night she was abducted. A
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    laptop computer in defendant’s room contained thousands of pictures of preteen girls in
    sexually provocative poses, and defendant’s cell phone showed multiple searches for
    Web sites with pictures of preteen children in sexually provocative poses. Doe 1’s blood
    was found on a mattress in defendant’s apartment.
    B. The Attempted Forcible Sexual Assault of Doe 2 (November 2008)
    In November 2008, 12-year-old Doe 2 woke to a man kneeling at the foot of her
    bed. The man told her to “shush,” threatened to shoot her father if she made a noise,
    pulled down her pajama pants and underwear, and placed a gun against her. She pushed
    the man off of her, ran out of the room, and called for her father as the man ran after her,
    waving the gun.
    Doe 2’s father heard Doe 2 screaming and saw someone jumping out of the living
    room window. Police found three fingerprints matching defendant’s fingerprints around
    the open living room window, and the window screen was propped against the side of the
    house.
    C. The Forcible Sexual Assault of Doe 3 (September 2008)
    In September 2008, 12-year-old Doe 3 woke and saw a man in her bedroom
    wearing dark clothing. The man pulled on her legs and she tried to kick him away. He
    pulled her shorts and underwear off, licked her vagina, and turned her over and tried to
    get on top of her. Doe 3 screamed for her father, and the man said he was her father. The
    man put his finger into her anus and her vagina as he kissed her buttocks. He tried to put
    his penis in her mouth, but she resisted.
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    Doe 3 screamed for her father again, and the man began strangling her. After she
    continued to resist, the man left. Doe 3 woke her family and the police were called. Doe
    3 was taken to the hospital and had overstretched tissues in her genital area, consistent
    with having been sexually assaulted. Defendant’s DNA matched DNA in saliva on Doe
    3’s buttocks. Outside Doe 3’s house, the police found an open bathroom window with its
    screen removed.
    D. The Amended Information
    As indicated, at the close of the prosecution’s case, the court indicated it would
    grant defendant’s section 1118.1 motion to dismiss the charge in count 3 of attempting to
    murder Doe 1 based on insufficient evidence defendant intended to kill Doe 1.
    Immediately thereafter, however, the court granted the prosecution’s motion to amend
    count 3 to charge defendant with assaulting Doe 1 with great bodily injury (§ 245, subd.
    (a)(1)) in lieu of the attempted murder charge.
    Additionally, the court allowed the prosecution to amend count 4 to charge an
    attempted forcible lewd act on Doe 2 (§§ 664, 288, subd. (b)(1)), rather than a
    (completed) forcible lewd act, as previously charged.2 Two other counts were dismissed,
    and the prosecutor filed an amended information.
    2  In opposing the amendment to count 3, defense counsel said she was about to
    move to dismiss count 3 (§ 1118.1) because there was insufficient evidence defendant
    used force in pulling Doe 2’s pajama pants and underwear down—that is, there was
    insufficient evidence defendant used more force than was necessary to pull down the
    pajama pants and underwear. The prosecutor pointed out that even if there was
    insufficient evidence of force, defendant used fear when he placed a gun, or a replica of a
    gun, next to Doe 2 and threatened to shoot her father if she was not quiet. The prosecutor
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    The amended information charged defendant in five counts: aggravated sexual
    assault of Doe 1 by means of forcible sexual penetration (§§ 269, subd. (a)(5), 289, subd.
    (a); count 1), assault with great bodily injury on Doe 1 (§ 245, subd. (a)(1)); count 2),
    attempted forcible lewd act on Doe 2 (§§ 664, 288, subd. (b)(1); count 3), aggravated
    sexual assault of Doe 3 by means of forcible oral copulation (§§ 269, subd. (a)(4), 288a,
    subd. (c)(2) or (3) or subd. (d); count 4), and aggravated sexual assault of Doe 3 by
    means of sexual penetration (§§ 269, subd. (a)(5), 289, subd, (a); count 5). One Strike
    law sentencing enhancements were alleged in counts 1, 4, and 5. (§ 667.61.)
    E. Verdicts and Sentencing
    The jury found defendant guilty as charged in counts 1 through 5 of the amended
    information, and found the One Strike allegations on counts 1, 4, and 5 true. Defendant
    was sentenced to life without parole on count 1, consecutive 25-year-to-life terms on
    counts 4 and 5, four years on count 2, and one year on count 3, consecutive to count 1.
    The court imposed but stayed a $200 parole revocation fine. (§ 1202.45.)
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    conceded there was insufficient evidence that defendant touched Doe 2 in a lewd manner,
    and for that reason he moved to amend count 3 to charge an attempted rather than a
    completed lewd act by force or fear. The court allowed the amendment, finding “the fear
    issue with the gun” sufficient to satisfy the force or fear element.
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    III. DISCUSSION
    A. The Information Was Properly Amended to Replace the Attempted Murder Charge
    with an Aggravated Assault Charge Against Doe 1
    Defendant claims the trial court abused its discretion and violated his due process
    rights in allowing the prosecutor to amend the information, following its case-in-chief, to
    charge him with assaulting Doe 1 by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury
    in count 2 (formerly count 3), in lieu of her attempted murder. In allowing the
    amendment, the court noted the assault charge would not “really be a surprise to the
    defense given the nature of [Doe 1’s] injuries.” Defense counsel objected, stating: “I’d
    just formally object on the record that the jury has already been read the Information at
    the outset.”
    “Due process requires that ‘an accused be advised of the charges against him so
    that he has a reasonable opportunity to prepare and present his defense and not be taken
    by surprise by evidence offered at his trial.’ [Citation.] Thus, it is the rule that ‘a
    defendant may not be prosecuted for an offense not shown by the evidence at the
    preliminary hearing or arising out of the transaction upon which the commitment was
    based.’ [Citations.]” (People v. Graff (2009) 
    170 Cal.App.4th 345
    , 360.)
    “In accordance with this rule, our Supreme Court has interpreted sections 739 and
    1009 to ‘“permit amendment of the information to add charges . . . which are supported
    by the actual evidence at the preliminary hearing, provided the facts show due notice by
    proof to the accused.” [Citations.]’ [Citations.] ‘Under section 739, “[t]he law is settled
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    that unless the magistrate makes factual findings to the contrary, the prosecution may
    amend the information after the preliminary hearing to charge any offense shown by the
    evidence adduced at the preliminary hearing provided the new crime is transactionally
    related to the crimes for which the defendant has previously been held to answer.”
    [Citations.] “Under the case law interpreting section 1009, the test applied is whether or
    not the amendment changes the offense charged to one not shown by the evidence taken
    at the preliminary examination. [Citation.]” [Citation.]’” (People v. McCoy (2013) 
    215 Cal.App.4th 1510
    , 1531.)
    We review the court’s accession to an amendment to the information, including
    the addition of counts, for an abuse of discretion. (People v. Arevalo-Iraheta (2011) 
    193 Cal.App.4th 1574
    , 1581 [Fourth Dist., Div. Two].) Here, there was no due process
    violation or abuse of discretion. At the preliminary hearing, Riverside Police Detective
    Roberta Hopewell testified she interviewed Doe 1, who recalled being awakened by a
    man who carried her away and “chok[ed]” her. Detective Hopewell also spoke with
    medical professionals who examined Doe 1 after she was taken to the hospital and
    described the severe vaginal tearing she suffered, all the way to her anus, and the
    petechial hemorrhages on her scalp, neck, and upper body. The detective also testified
    that DNA and other evidence identified defendant as the person who abducted and
    sexually assaulted Doe 1.
    All of this evidence was presented in the prosecution’s case-in-chief, before the
    court allowed the amendment. As the court pointed out, the aggravated assault charge
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    was not “a surprise to the defense given the nature of [Doe 1’s] injuries.” Indeed, the
    new charge was not a surprise to defendant given all the evidence adduced at the
    preliminary hearing and at trial.
    Defendant argues the court abused its discretion in allowing the amendment
    simply because assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury is not a
    lesser included offense of attempted murder. But this does not mean there was an abuse
    of discretion or due process violation. The aggravated assault charge was shown by the
    evidence taken at the preliminary hearing (§ 1009) and was transactionally related to the
    attempted murder charge (§ 739). Further, defendant had adequate notice and
    opportunity to defend against the aggravated assault charge, based on the evidence taken
    at the preliminary hearing, and no evidence was presented during trial that was
    substantially different from the evidence presented at the preliminary hearing.
    B. The Failure to Instruct on the Force or Fear Element of Attempted Forcible Sexual
    Assault of a Child in Count 3 (§ 288, subd. (b)(1)) Was Harmless
    Defendant next claims the trial court prejudicially erred in failing to instruct the
    jury that it had to find he acted with force or fear in order to convict him of the attempted
    forcible sexual assault of Doe 2 in count 3 (§§ 664, 288, subd. (b)(1)), requiring reversal
    of count 3. We agree there was error, but conclude it was harmless beyond a reasonable
    doubt. No reasonable juror could have found defendant guilty in count 3 without finding
    he attempted to commit a lewd act on Doe 2 by fear—specifically by placing a gun
    against her and threatening to shoot her father unless she was quiet.
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    1. Relevant Background
    On count 3, the court instructed the jury pursuant to CALCRIM No. 1110 on the
    elements necessary to prove a lewd and lascivious act on a child under 14 years of age.
    (§ 288, subd. (a).) But rather than give CALCRIM No. 1110, the court should have given
    CALCRIM No. 1111, the pattern instruction on the elements of a lewd act on a child
    under 14 years of age, “by use of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate
    and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person . . . .” (§ 288, subd. (b)(1).)
    CALCRIM No. 1110 did not identify force or fear as an element of the attempted,
    forcible lewd act charge in count 3.
    2. Applicable Law and Analysis
    “‘[T]he correctness of jury instructions is to be determined from the entire charge
    of the court, not from a consideration of parts of an instruction or from a particular
    instruction.’ [Citation.] ‘“The absence of an essential element in one instruction may be
    supplied by another or cured in light of the instructions as a whole.”’ [Citation.]”
    (People v. Castillo (1997) 
    16 Cal.4th 1009
    , 1016.) We review the legal adequacy of jury
    instructions de novo. (People v. Cole (2004) 
    33 Cal.4th 1158
    , 1210.)
    The People argue the entire charge to the jury adequately instructed it on the force
    or fear element necessary to prove the attempted forcible lewd act charge involving Doe
    2 in count 3. The People point out that the court gave CALCRIM No. 1123, defining the
    element of force of fear for purposes of counts 1, 4, and 5, which charged defendant with
    aggravated sexual assault on a child under 14 years of age; the jury was instructed to
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    consider all of the instructions “together”; in closing argument, the prosecutor told the
    jury that in order to convict defendant in count 3 it had to find he attempted to commit a
    lewd act on Doe 2 by “force, violence, duress, or fear”; and the verdict form in count 3
    referred to the force or fear element. It stated: “We, the jury, find the defendant _______
    [insert GUILTY or NOT GUILTY in blank] of Attempted Lewd Act by Force upon
    Jane Doe 2, within the meaning of Penal Code section 664/228(b)(1), as charged in
    Count 3.” The jury returned the verdict form, finding defendant guilty.3
    We disagree that the entire charge adequately instructed on the force or fear
    element in count 3. As defendant points out, “force, violence, duress, or fear,” was not
    defined for purposes of count 3; it was only defined for purposes of counts 1, 4, and 5.
    Further, the jury was instructed pursuant to CALCRIM No. 200 that if it believed the
    arguments of counsel conflicted with the court’s instructions, it had to follow the court’s
    instructions. And here, the prosecutor’s argument that the jury had to find defendant
    attempted to commit a lewd act by force or fear, in count 3, conflicted with the court’s
    instructions on count 3.
    3  The People also argue that the trial court read the information to the jury, at the
    outset of trial, stating in part that defendant was charged in count 3 with “[a] violation of
    Penal Code section 664/228, subdivision (b), subsection (1), a felony, in that . . . he did
    attempt to willfully, unlawfully, and lewdly commit a lewd and lascivious act upon and
    with the body and certain parts and members thereof of Jane Doe #2, a child under the
    age of fourteen years, by use of force, violence, duress, menace, and fear of immediate
    and unlawful bodily injury . . . .” (Italics added.) Contrary to the People’s assertion, the
    record on appeal does not indicate that this charge was read to the jury verbatim, as
    charged in the information.
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    Still, the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. Instructional error that
    omits an element of an offense requires reversal, unless it appears beyond a reasonable
    doubt that the error did not contribute to the verdict. (Chapman v. California (1967) 
    386 U.S. 18
    , 24; People v. Flood (1998) 
    18 Cal.4th 470
    , 504.) The question “is not whether,
    in a trial that occurred without the error, a guilty verdict would surely have been
    rendered, but whether the guilty verdict actually rendered in this trial was surely
    unattributable to the error.” (Sullivan v. Louisiana (1993) 
    508 U.S. 275
    , 279; see People
    v. Flood, 
    supra, at p. 515
    .) But “instructional error is harmless ‘where a reviewing court
    concludes beyond a reasonable doubt that the omitted element was uncontested and
    supported by overwhelming evidence.’ [Citations.]” (People v. Mil (2012) 
    53 Cal.4th 400
    , 417, quoting Neder v. U.S. (1999) 
    527 U.S. 1
    , 17.)
    Doe 2 testified she woke to a man, later identified through DNA evidence as
    defendant, kneeling at the foot of her bed who told her to “shush,” threatened to shoot her
    father if she made a noise, pulled down her pajama pants and underwear, and placed a
    gun against her. Doe 2’s testimony that defendant threatened to shoot her father was
    uncontested and overwhelming.
    Defendant points out that Doe 2 could not recall exactly when the man threatened
    to shoot her father, or exactly when he put a gun, or a replica of a gun, against her—
    whether these acts occurred before or after the man pulled down her pajama pants and
    underwear. But her failure to recollect these details made her testimony no less
    overwhelming; she clearly recalled that the man threatened to shoot her father around the
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    same time he crawled onto her bed, placed a gun, or a replica of a gun against her, and
    pulled down her pajama pants and underwear. Thus here, the jury must have concluded
    defendant threatened to shoot Doe 2’s father, and placed a gun or a replica of a gun
    against her, and that defendant accordingly used fear in attempting to commit a lewd act
    on Doe 2, in finding him guilty in count 3.
    C. Defendant Was Properly Sentenced Under the One Strike Law (§ 667.61)
    Defendant next claims he was unlawfully sentenced under the One Strike law
    (§ 667.61) on counts 1, 4, and 5, because he was convicted in those counts of violating
    section 269, subdivision (a)(4) and (5), rather than an offense listed in section 667.61,
    subdivision (c). He argues “the one strike law does not apply to section 269 convictions”
    but only to offenses listed in section 667.61, subdivision (c), and section 269 is not an
    offense listed in section 667.61, subdivision (c). We reject this claim.
    Defendant was sentenced on count 1 to life without the possibility of parole under
    subdivision (j)(1) of section 667.61, and on counts 4 and 5 he was sentenced to 25-year-
    to-life terms under subdivision (a) of section 667.61. Subdivisions (a) and (j)(1) provide
    that “[a]ny person who is convicted of an offense specified in subdivision (c) . . . shall be
    punished [as provided in section 667.61].” Section 667.61, subdivision (c) states that
    “[t]his section shall apply to any of the following offenses,” and goes on to enumerate
    these offenses in clauses (1) through (9).
    In count 1, defendant was convicted of violating section 269, subdivision (a)(5)
    (aggravated sexual assault of child under age 14 and seven or more years younger than
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    defendant) by committing “sexual penetration” of Doe 1. (Capitalization omitted.)
    Section 269, subdivision (a)(5) is violated by committing “[s]exual penetration, in
    violation of subdivision (a) of section 289.” (Italics added.) And “[s]exual penetration,
    in violation of subdivision (a) of Section 289” is the “offense” listed in section 667.61,
    subdivision (c)(5).
    Likewise, defendant was convicted in count 4 of the aggravated sexual assault of
    Doe 3, by forcible oral copulation (§ 269, subd. (a)(4)) and in count 5 of the aggravated
    sexual assault of Doe 3 by sexual penetration (§ 269, subd. (a)(5)). Section 269,
    subdivision (a)(4) is violated by a person who commits “[o]ral copulation, in violation of
    paragraph (2) or (3) of subdivision (c), or subdivision (d), of Section 288a” against a
    child under the age of 14 and seven or more years younger than the person. “Oral
    copulation, in violation of paragraph (2) or (3) of subdivision (c), or subdivision (d), of
    Section 288a” is the offense listed in section 667.61, subdivision (c)(7). And, as
    indicated, section 269, subdivision (a)(5) is violated by a person who commits “[s]exual
    penetration, in violation of subdivision (a) of Section 289” against a child under the age
    of 14 and seven or more years younger than the person, and “[s]exual penetration, in
    violation of subdivision (a) of Section 289” is the offense listed in section 667.61,
    subdivision (c)(5).
    Defendant’s interpretation of section 667.61 is absurd, because it means that a
    person who commits an offense listed in section 667.61 subdivision (c) against a child
    under age 14 and seven or more years younger than the person, is not subject to
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    sentencing under the One Strike law, but a person who commits the same offense against
    a person 14 years of age or older, or less than seven years younger than the person, is to
    be sentenced under the One Strike law. Nothing in the language of section 667.61
    supports this absurd interpretation, and defendant points to nothing in the legislative
    history of section 667.61 indicating it is what the Legislature intended. (In re Greg F.
    (2012) 
    55 Cal.4th 393
    , 406 [courts are to avoid interpreting statutes in a way that would
    produce absurd consequences the Legislature could not have intended].)
    D. The Parole Revocation Fine Was Properly Imposed
    Lastly, defendant claims the $200 stayed parole revocation fine must be stricken
    because he “was given a term of life without the possibility of parole [in count 1] and,
    therefore, his sentence does not include a period of parole.” Defendant relies on People
    v. Oganesyan (1999) 
    70 Cal.App.4th 1178
    , 1182, 1185-1186, where the court concluded
    a parole revocation fine must not be imposed on defendants whose aggregate sentences
    include life without the possibility of parole.
    Section 1202.45, subdivision (a), provides: “In every case where a person is
    convicted of a crime and his or her sentence includes a period of parole, the court shall,
    at the time of imposing the restitution fine . . . assess an additional parole revocation
    restitution fine . . . .” (Italics added.) This additional parole revocation restitution fine
    shall be suspended unless the person’s parole is revoked. The court in Oganesyan
    reasoned that “the language of section 1202.45 indicates that the overall sentence is the
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    indicator of whether the additional [parole revocation] restitution fine is to be imposed.”
    (People v. Oganesyan, supra, 70 Cal.App.4th at p. 1185.)
    The California Supreme Court took a different view of section 1202.45 in People
    v. Brasure (2008) 
    42 Cal.4th 1037
     (Brasure), and effectively interpreted the statute as
    applying to defendants sentenced to any term that includes the possibility of parole. The
    court distinguished Oganesyan “as involving no determinate term of imprisonment
    imposed under section 1170, but rather a sentence of life without the possibility of parole
    for first degree special circumstance murder and an indeterminate life sentence for second
    degree murder.” (Brasure, supra, at p. 1075.) Though the defendant in Brasure was
    sentenced to death, he was also sentenced to determinate terms (§ 1170) which, by law,
    the court reasoned, included the possibility of parole and a suspended parole revocation
    fine (§ 3000, subd. (a) (1), 1202.45; Brasure, 
    supra, at p. 1075
    ).
    Like the defendant in Brasure, defendant’s sentence includes determinate terms—
    four- and five-year terms on counts 2 and 3—and these carry with them the possibility of
    parole (§ 3000, subd. (a)(1)) and a suspended parole revocation fine (§ 1202.45; Brasure,
    
    supra,
     42 Cal.4th at p. 1075). And like the defendant in Brasure, defendant “is in no way
    prejudiced by assessment of the [suspended parole revocation] fine, which will become
    payable only if he actually does begin serving a period of parole and his parole is
    revoked.” (Brasure, 
    supra, at p. 1075
    .)
    IV. DISPOSITION
    The judgment is affirmed.
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    KING
    J.
    We concur:
    HOLLENHORST
    Acting P. J.
    MILLER
    J.
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