CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Court Control of Proceedings
......Exceeding Jurisdiction; Action W/out Notice
3 Cards On This Topic:

Unless DA consents, establishment of D's guilt must ••precede•• court's reduction of a wobbler to a misdemeanor; w/out consent, reduction of felonies to misdemeanors, and letting D plead guilty to them, was an unlawful judicial plea bargain.

Trial court exceeded its jurisdiction by reforming negotiated plea to conform with the applicable law because the reformation denied the People the benefit of their bargain.

Trial court erred in reducing felony charges to misdemeanors and dismissing w/out giving the DA the required statutory notice.