People v. Williams

I.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL

BACKGROUND

In 1995, after a jury convicted Williams of one count of first degree murder and found true that he personally used a firearm, he was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison.3 He was released from prison in June 2018 and placed on lifetime parole, as required based on his indeterminate sentence for murder. (§ 3000.1, subd. (a)(1).) Approximately 18 months later, on December 1, 2019, a Rohnert Park police officer pulled over the vehicle in which Williams was a passenger. The

2Given this disposition, we need not address the Attorney General’s argument that even if the trial court was required to obtain a written report, the requirement is directory only and the failure to comply with it did not invalidate the order revoking Williams’s parole. 3Division Two of this court subsequently affirmed the judgment. (People v. Williams (Mar. 27, 1997, A070508) [nonpub. opn.].)

2 officer performed a parole search and found a methamphetamine pipe in Williams’s jacket. During the booking process at jail, the officer discovered Williams had a credit card in a different name in his wallet. Two days later, the Sonoma County District Attorney filed a…