California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Gibson, G055843 (Cal. App. 2019):
"Where there is a discrepancy between the oral pronouncement of judgment and the minute order or the abstract of judgment, the oral pronouncement controls." [Citations.] (People v. Zackery (2007) 147 Cal.App.4th 380, 385.) Such discrepancies are "presumed to be the result of clerical error." (People v. Price (2004) 120 Cal.App.4th 224, 242.) "Courts may correct clerical errors at any time," for instance, by ordering "correction of abstracts of judgment that [do] not accurately reflect the oral judgments of sentencing courts. [Citations.]" (People v. Mitchell (2001) 26 Cal.4th 181, 185.)
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