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PEOPLE v. SUTTON

Docket No. 14134.

113 Cal.App.3d 162 (1980)

169 Cal. Rptr. 656

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JOHN TIMOTHY SUTTON, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Two.

December 11, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Michael J. Udovic, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Daniel J. Kremer, Assistant Attorney General, Jay M. Bloom and Michael D. Wellington, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

GARDNER, P.J.

(1) In this case, we hold that when a defendant enters into a plea bargain via a slow plea in which a condition of the bargain is the imposition of an upper term of imprisonment, the court, in stating its reasons for that sentence choice, need only give the bargain as its reason and need not give any other reason.

When, in 1976, the Legislature...

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