P. v. Dodson
At the November 29, 2011 change of plea hearing, after defendant Shannon Lowe Dodson initialed and signed a change of plea form, the court told Dodson that under the plea agreement his "sentencing range could be anywhere between a minimum of three years in state prison to a maximum of 27 years in state prison,"[1] the court would make the sentencing determination after a sentencing hearing, Dodson would not necessarily receive the seven-year sentence the prosecutor had offered (and Dodson had rejected) earlier, and, since Dodson was admitting responsibility, the court was "not going to go to the high end of the sentencing range and give [him] the max or anything close to it."
After the court advised Dodson of his constitutional rights and the potential consequences of his plea, Dodson pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit first degree robbery—home invasion robbery in concert (count 1: Pen. Code, § 182, subd. (a)(1). (Undesignated statutory references will be to the Penal Code.) Dodson admitted count 1 allegations that (1) he committed count 1 for the benefit of, at the direction of, and in association with a criminal street gang with the specific intent to promote, further and assist in criminal conduct by gang members (§ 186.22, subd. (b)(1)); and (2) in committing that street gang crime, he unlawfully carried a firearm on his person or in a vehicle (§ 12021.5, subd. (a)). Dodson also admitted that in 2008 he had suffered a prior juvenile robbery adjudication that qualified as a strike prior (§§ 667, subds. (b)-(i), 668, 1170.12). On the People's motion, the court dismissed the remaining counts and allegations alleged in the felony complaint.
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