People v. Torres CA6

I. BACKGROUND

Because the facts underlying Torres’ offenses are not relevant to this appeal, we omit them and only recount the relevant proceedings. (See, e.g., People v. Mendez (2021) 69 Cal.App.5th 347, 351, fn. 2.) In October 2017, the prosecutor filed a complaint in Santa Clara County Superior Court charging Adam Mel Torres with using the personal identifying information of another without authorization in violation of section 530.5, subd. (a). The complaint also alleged that Torres had one prior strike and three prison priors. After entering into a plea agreement, Torres pled no contest to the unauthorized use of personal information charge and admitted the prior strike as well as the prison priors. Pursuant to the agreement, the trial court sentenced Torres consecutively to a sentence he was already serving in another case from San Mateo County, and because the sentence in the San Mateo case was longer, the court treated the sentence for the unauthorized use offense as the subordinate term and imposed one year and four months in prison—one-third of the middle term of two years, doubled for his strike—for that offense. The court also imposed the three prison priors but…