California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Demedio, E063425 (Cal. App. 2016):
complain for the first time on appeal about the trial court's failure to state reasons for a sentencing choice, reasoning, inter alia, that "[r]outine defects in the court's statement of reasons are easily prevented and corrected if called to the court's attention." (Id. at p. 353; see People v. Tillman (2000) 22 Cal.4th 300, 302-303 [People forfeited its unpreserved challenge to court's failure to state reasons for not imposing restitution fine, a decision constituting discretionary sentencing choice].)
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