People v. Arredondo CA4/2

BACKGROUND

In June 2022, Arredondo pled guilty to first degree residential burglary. (Pen.

Code, § 459.)1 He also stipulated to aggravating factors that allowed the court to impose

the upper term. In exchange the trial court dismissed all other charges, imposed the

upper term of six years, suspended that sentence, and placed Arredondo on four years’

formal probation.

Arredondo failed to report to the probation department, and later that same June

the probation department filed a petition alleging he had violated the terms of his

probation. Arredondo admitted to the probation violation in July, and the court

reimposed probation.

In October 2022 the probation department again alleged Arredondo violated

probation by failing to report as required. The court revoked probation and issued a

1 Unlabeled statutory citations are to the Penal Code.

2 Arredondo’s victim was a person defined in Family Code section 6211, which permitted the court to impose more than two years’ probation. (Pen. Code, §§ 1203.097, subd. (a), 1203.1, subd. (l).)

2 bench warrant. The police eventually executed that warrant, but Arredondo allegedly

obstructed or resisted them in the process, in…