People v. Skidmore CA3

FACTS

In June 2013, defendant’s probation was transferred into Glenn County from Yolo County. The Glenn County Probation Department told the Glenn County court that defendant was amenable to and acceptable for probation. He had completed his Proposition 36 drug treatment.2 At that point, defendant still had about a year remaining on probation. The court accepted the transfer; defendant remained on probation with the same terms and conditions. The Probation Department asked for a review in three months. The court set a hearing for September 11, 2013. The court told defendant, “if everything is copacetic they’ll move to dismiss your case.” At that September hearing, the Probation Department asked the court to dismiss defendant from the drug treatment program due to defendant’s successful completion thereof. A representative from the treatment program told the court defendant had attended for nine months and “he did everything that he needed to do to do that.” The representative also asked that defendant be dismissed from the program. Defense counsel then asked that defendant’s underlying charges be reduced to misdemeanors “if available” and the charges be reinstated and dismissed.…