People v. Coddington CA1/1

I.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL

BACKGROUND

We described much of the relevant procedural background in an earlier appeal by Coddington involving the same sentence at issue in this appeal, and we repeat that background here. “Coddington has an extensive criminal

1 All subsequent statutory citations are to the Penal Code unless

otherwise specified.

1 history. The case establishing the basis of this appeal arose in connection with an incident in October 2016 in which he attacked a fellow inmate at the Del Norte County Jail. As a result of the incident, Coddington was charged by felony information with one count of assault by force likely to cause great bodily injury (§ 245, subd. (a)(4)) and one count of making a criminal threat (§ 422), both with a special allegation of great bodily injury (§ 12022.7). The information contained three additional allegations: that Coddington previously had been convicted of a serious felony (§ 667, subd. (a), ‘serious felony allegation’), that he had a prior strike conviction (§ 1170.12, ‘prior strike allegation’), and that he had served three prior prison terms (former § 667.5, subd. (b), ‘prison priors’). “In May 2017, Coddington pleaded guilty to…