People v. Fook

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendant’s five convictions for concealing the death of another “merged into one” because defendant’s course of conduct constituted only one violation of the applicable statute
• holding that, in the context of evaluating a merger claim, a reviewing court should vacate an illegal sentence even if the error was not raised in the trial court or on appeal
• explaining that void conviction and void sentence claims may be considered for the first time on direct appeal and in other proper post-trial proceedings
• explaining that such claims may be decided on appeal even “where the issue was not raised in the trial court and is not enumerated as error on appeal”
• noting that a guilty plea does not waive a challenge to an illegal sentence
• explaining that a merger claim may be considered on direct appeal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).