PEOPLE v. OLKEN

Docket No. 39468.

125 Cal.App.3d 1064 (1981)

178 Cal. Rptr. 497

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. MORTON Z. OLKEN, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Three.

November 24, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Quin Denvir, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, and Richard Lennon, Deputy State Public Defender, for Defendant and Appellant.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, S. Clark Moore, Assistant Attorney General, William R. Pounders and John R. Gorey, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

COBEY, J.

We hold that a sentence imposed pursuant to a negotiated disposition which is not supported by an articulation of reasons, while erroneous, is not "unauthorized by law" and, therefore, is not subject to correction after it has become final.

Morton Z. Olken was convicted by plea of grand theft (Pen. Code, § 487, subd. 1) and on November 11, 1979, was sentenced to state prison for the upper three-year...

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