People v. Jackson CA3

BACKGROUND

A complaint filed in October 2014 charged defendant Robert Louis Jackson III with felony hit and run (count 1; Veh. Code, § 20001, subd. (a)), misdemeanor driving on a license suspended for drunk driving (count 2; Veh. Code, § 14601.2, subd. (a)), and

1 failing to provide evidence of financial responsibility, an infraction (count 3; Veh. Code, § 16028, subd. (c)). Defendant pleaded guilty to all counts. At the time of the plea, counsel stipulated to a factual basis providing in relevant part that on September 21, 2014, defendant was driving a car on a street in Stockton and collided with a boy riding his bicycle on the same street in the opposite direction. While the boy’s mother and a neighbor were rendering aid, defendant moved the bicycle out of the path of his car and drove away. The trial court suspended imposition of sentence and placed defendant on five years of formal probation, with 180 days in county jail on count 1 and an additional 10 days consecutive on count 2, with 52 days of credit for time served. The court subsequently entered an order granting appellate counsel’s motion for correction of the record, which awarded defendant 52 days of conduct credit,…