People v. Jones CA2/7

Filed 8/25/25 P. v. Jones CA2/7 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS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 SEVEN

THE PEOPLE, B344143

Plaintiff and Respondent, (Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. TA146529) v.

LAQUISHA JONES,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from orders of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Hector E. Gutierrez, Judge. Dismissed. Laquisha Jones, in pro. per., and Allen G. Weinberg, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent. __________________________

Laquisha Jones appeals from the superior court’s order denying her petition for recall and resentencing under Penal Code section 1172.1.1 We appointed counsel to represent Jones on appeal. After reviewing the record counsel for Jones filed a brief pursuant to People v. Delgadillo (2022) 14 Cal.5th 216 that did not identify any arguable issues. After independently reviewing the record and the contentions in Jones’s supplemental brief, we have not identified any either. We dismiss the appeal as taken from a nonappealable order.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

On July 4, 2018 Rodolfo Rodriguez was 70 years old and walking down the street when Jones, without provocation, either hit him with a brick or pushed him to the ground. Jones began kicking Rodriguez in the face while he was on the ground. Three men joined in the attack. Rodriguez briefly lost consciousness. A witness stopped her car to intervene, and the men ran away. The witness was able to take a picture of Jones on her cell phone before Jones casually walked away. Rodriguez suffered a concussion; fractures in his right cheek bone, left orbital bone, and nose; and lacerations to his right eyebrow and upper lip. The People charged Jones with one count of attempted murder (§§ 187, subd. (a), 664) and one count of willfully causing an elder or dependent adult to suffer or willfully inflicting unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering on an elder or dependent adult (§ 368, subd. (b)(1)). Jones pleaded no contest to one count of elder abuse and admitted that she personally used a deadly or dangerous weapon in committing a felony or attempted