The People v. Johnson

Defendant Maibren Dorian Johnson violated probation and was sentenced to six years in prison for a 2011 robbery conviction. He contends the trial court violated his right to receive a timely probation revocation hearing when it continued the hearing for two weeks without good cause. He also asks that we independently review the trial court’s in camera review of police personnel records. We conclude that although no good cause justified continuing the probation revocation hearing, Johnson suffered no prejudice from the delay, and we agree with the trial court that the police personnel records it reviewed contained no discoverable information. Therefore, we affirm.

BACKGROUND

In 2011, Johnson pled no contest to two counts of second degree robbery and was sentenced to six years in prison. The sentencing court suspended execution of the sentence and placed Johnson on three years’ formal probation with various terms and conditions, including the requirement that he agree to submit to searches by law enforcement officers with or without a warrant or probable cause.

On January 13, 2012, Sheriff’s Deputies Eddie Ochoa and James Chambless detained Johnson and, upon searching…