People v. Bunn CA4/3
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Court: California Court of Appeal
Date: April 20, 2026
Category: General
Filed 4/20/26 P. v. Bunn CA4/3
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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT
DIVISION THREE
THE PEOPLE,
Plaintiff and Respondent, G064656
v. (Super. Ct. No. INF1701658)
SHELLEY ANN BUNN, OPINION
Defendant and Appellant.
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Riverside
County, Jerry C. Yang, Judge. Affirmed as modified.
Steven A. Torres, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for
Defendant and Appellant.
Rob Bonta, Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Chief Assistant
Attorney General, Charles C. Ragland, Assistant Attorney General, Robin
Urbanski and Donald W. Ostertag, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff
and Respondent.
* * *
Defendant Shelley Ann Bunn crashed her car while driving under
the influence of alcohol (DUI). Her passenger died from injuries sustained in
the collision. She was convicted of second degree murder under an implied
malice theory and sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. On appeal, she
primarily argues the trial court’s jury instructions misstated the legal
standard for implied malice. We disagree. The court’s instructions accurately
stated the law.
Next, the minute order and abstract of judgment state that the
trial court imposed on Bunn (1) a restitution fine (Pen. Code, § 1202.4)1,
which was stayed, and (2) a parole revocation fine (§ 1202.45, subd. (c)),
which was suspended. Bunn argues the court struck these fines in its oral
pronouncement of judgment, so they must also be stricken from the minute
order and abstract of judgment. We find no error.
Finally, Bunn argues she is entitled to three more days of actual
custody credits. The Attorney General’s office agrees, and so do we. Thus, we
modify the judgment to reflect the correct amount of actual custody credits.
The judgment is affirmed as modified.
FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
I.
PRIOR DUI CONVICTION
Bunn was arrested in 2007 in Palm Springs and pleaded guilty to
DUI. (Veh. Code, § 23152, subd. (b).) Part of her plea deal advised that “if
you are to operate a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and
you were to crash and kill somebody, you can be charged with murder.” Bunn
1 Undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code.
2
was sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to enroll in a first
offender DUI program.
II.
THE CURRENT OFFENSE
Around 9:00 p.m., on October 12, 2016, a construction crew was
performing an electrical repair at a country club in Rancho Mirage. They
parked a truck and an equipment trailer on the main street by the country
club. The crew picked this parking location because it was on the biggest
street in the area and it “had more than enough clearance between the side of
[the] trailer and truck and the center median.”
The crew set up orange traffic cones with reflective tape in a
tapered formation behind the trailer to move traffic around it and the truck.
The cones started about 60 feet back from the trailer,
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