Jan. 24, 2018
Panel says judge erred in vacating plea and sentence
The Orange County judge issued a new sentence after the victim got a chance to speak.
ARSENIAN
SANTA ANA — An Orange County Superior Court judge erred when he vacated a hit-and-run drunken driver’s plea and sentencing because the victim was absent and didn’t get to speak, a 4th District Court of Appeal panel has ruled.
Judge Scott A. Steiner must reinstate the defendant’s original guilty plea and impose a sentence no greater than the two-year sentence he first imposed, according to an unpublished opinion by Presiding Justice...
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