Therman

Defendant Shylow Menyon Therman pled no contest to false imprisonment and admitted a prior strike conviction. The trial court sentenced defendant to four years in state prison and issued a criminal protective order pursuant to Penal Code section 136.2, prohibiting defendant from contacting the victim for a period of five years.

Defendant’s sole contention on appeal is that the trial court lacked authority to impose the no-contact order. The People concede error. We reject the People’s concession and affirm.

FACTUAL BACKGROUND

On May 13, 2014, defendant was charged with residential burglary, making criminal threats, and inflicting corporal injury on his spouse.

On June 16, 2014, defendant pled no contest to felony false imprisonment, a reasonably related offense to inflicting corporal injury on his spouse, for a stipulated sentence of four years in state prison. The prosecutor recited the factual basis for the plea as follows: “On or about March 7th, 2014, in Sacramento County, the defendant, Shylow Therman, did commit a felony violation of Penal Code section 236, felony false imprisonment, as reasonably related to the crime [(inflicting corporal injury on a spouse)],…