People v. Williams CA3

Filed 4/30/25 P. v. Williams CA3 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule 8.1115(b). This opinion has not been certified for publication or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115.

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT (Sacramento) ----

THE PEOPLE,

Plaintiff and Respondent, C100633

v. (Super. Ct. No. 14F00379)

VERNON RAY WILLIAMS,

Defendant and Appellant.

Defendant Vernon Ray Williams appeals from a resentencing under Penal Code section 1172.75.1 His appointed counsel asked this court to review the record and determine whether there are any arguable issues on appeal. (People v. Wende (1979) 25 Cal.3d 436.) Defendant was advised by counsel of the right to file a supplemental brief within 30 days of the date of filing the opening brief. More than 30 days elapsed and we received no supplemental brief from defendant. Although this is not defendant’s first appeal as of right, in the interest of judicial economy we have exercised our discretion to independently review the record. (See People v. Delgadillo (2022) 14 Cal.5th 216, 233, fn. 6.) Based on our review, we will deem the trial court to have imposed but stayed sentence on a battery conviction and

1 Undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code.

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associated enhancement. But we will remand the matter to the trial court for recalculation of defendant’s presentence credit. We will otherwise affirm the judgment. BACKGROUND In 2015, a jury found defendant guilty of inflicting corporal injury resulting in a traumatic condition (§ 273.5, subd. (a)) and battery causing serious bodily injury (§ 243, subd. (d)). As to each offense, the jury found that defendant personally inflicted great bodily injury. (§ 12022.7, subd. (e).) The trial court found that defendant had a prior strike conviction and a prior serious felony conviction (§ 667, subd. (a)) and had served a prior prison term (former § 667.5, subd. (b)). The trial court denied defendant’s Romero2 motion and sentenced him to an aggregate 19 years in prison, consisting of the following: eight years for inflicting corporal injury, five years for the associated great bodily injury enhancement, five years for the prior serious felony conviction, and one year for the prior prison term. Pursuant to section 654, the trial court imposed but stayed sentence on the battery conviction and the associated great bodily injury enhancement. It awarded defendant 537 days of presentence credit (467 days actual and 70 days conduct). In 2023, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation identified defendant as an individual eligible for resentencing under section 1172.75. The trial court recalled defendant’s sentence and scheduled a resentencing hearing. In a written brief, defendant argued (among other things) that the sentence for the battery conviction and the associated great bodily injury enhancement should remain stayed. The People did not disagree. At the resentencing hearing, the trial court once again denied defendant’s Romero motion and also denied a motion under section 1385 to strike the prior serious felony conviction enhancement and the great bodily injury enhancements. It stated it was