Graves

Appellant Titus Graves claims he was entrapped by government authorities during the period between his sentencing in state court following a guilty plea and the date set for his surrender. This “sentence entrapment,” he claims, resulted in his probation violation. For that reason, he seeks to set aside the guilty plea and have the sentence vacated. In the published portion of this opinion, we find no entrapment under these facts. In the unpublished portion of our opinion, we find no error in the trial court’s nunc pro tunc sentence correction, but we modify appellant’s sentence to reflect proper credit for time served. As modified, we affirm the judgment.

Factual and Procedural Summary

In August 1997, appellant and Charles Coley were charged with 17 counts of theft and related crimes involving the fraudulent use of credit cards to purchase airline tickets. The crimes were alleged to have occurred between August 25, 1992, and November 10, 1994.

On March 1, 1999, appellant entered a guilty plea to count 1, grand theft (Pen. Code, § 487, subd. (a)), admitting that he fraudulently obtained credit card numbers and gave them to Charles Coley, who unlawfully wrote United…