People v. Sanchez CA2/8

Filed 4/28/25 P. v. Sanchez CA2/8 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION EIGHT

THE PEOPLE, B332655

Plaintiff and Respondent, Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. KA102162 v.

JOHN MICHAEL SANCHEZ,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Mike Camacho, Judge. Affirmed. Linda L. Gordon, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Rob Bonta, Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Susan Sullivan Pithey, Assistant Attorney General, Wyatt E. Bloomfield and Lindsay Boyd, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent. ____________________

After a hearing under section 1172.75, the trial court resentenced John Sanchez. The trial court then denied Sanchez a hearing pursuant to section 1172.1 about seven months later. We affirm and remand for the trial court to correct Sanchez’s custody credits. Statutory citations are to the Penal Code. I On May 29, 2013, Sanchez pleaded no contest to driving under the influence of alcohol. He had been driving about 130 miles per hour with a blood alcohol content of 0.13 percent. The court placed him on probation and ordered him to surrender himself for a 60-day jail sentence on June 14. The court ordered Sanchez not to drive and read him a Watson advisement, warning him that continuing to drink and drive could lead to a murder charge if he killed someone. On June 7, a week before he was supposed to surrender, Sanchez and his girlfriend, Rachel Nixon, went to a club in Rancho Cucamonga and had several drinks. Sanchez was driving them back at about 2:30 a.m. An earlier accident had caused traffic, and the cars on Sanchez’s side of the highway were stopped. Sanchez failed to stop and slammed into a car, propelling the car into a wall. Sanchez hit two more cars before his car hit the center divider wall. Cassandra Bonilla was driving the first car Sanchez hit, with four passengers. The impact threw passengers Joanna Balderas and Alexandria Garcia out of the car. Balderas died without regaining consciousness. Garcia’s leg was lacerated and her ankle broken. The crash fractured Bonilla’s femur, dislocated her hip, and caused her brain to bleed. Passenger Vincent Canales suffered a subdural hemorrhage and damage to his