People v. Cooper CA2/5

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

In 2019, appellant Jordan Cooper pled no contest to conspiracy to commit pandering (§§ 182, 266i). The trial court suspended the imposition of an eight-month sentence and placed Cooper on probation for three years. In 2020, Cooper pled no contest to robbery (§ 211) and sexual battery (§ 243), was sentenced to three years for the former and six months for the latter, to run concurrently, in addition to eight months (that had been suspended in the prior case) to run consecutively. He was ordered to register as a sex offender. Cooper was released from prison under parole supervision in mid-September 2022, on the condition (among others) that he wear a GPS monitoring device and charge the device at least twice a day every 12 hours for at least one full hour each charging time. Despite agreeing to these terms, on September 22, 2022, Cooper allowed the battery to die on his GPS tracking device, and rendered it inoperable for two hours. Cooper had previously had a problem with the device and received a new charger for it on September 20, 2022. Cooper charged the battery for 32 minutes on the morning of September 21, 2022. When the battery on the device gets…