People v. Williams CA4/1

Filed 9/17/25 P. v. Williams CA4/1 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN OFFICIAL REPORTS California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or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 This opinion has not been certified for publication or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115.

COURT OF APPEAL, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION ONE

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

THE PEOPLE, D083922

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v. (Super. Ct. No. SCD139596)

HENRY LEE WILLIAMS,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of San Diego County, David J. Danielsen, Judge. Affirmed. Gerald J. Miller, 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, Christopher P. Beesley, and Evan Stele, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Henry Lee Williams appeals from an amended judgment after

resentencing pursuant to Penal Code,1 section 1172.75. Williams contends the sentencing court erred by denying his motion for resentencing based on an erroneous dangerousness finding. We reject Williams’s arguments and affirm.

PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND2 A jury convicted Williams of seven counts of lewd acts with a child under 14 years old. (§ 288, subd. (a).) In a bifurcated proceeding, the trial court found true that Williams had a felony sex prior (§ 667.61, subds. (a), (c), & (d)), two prison priors (§ 667.5, subd. (b)), a serious felony prior (§§ 667, subd. (a)(1); 1192.7, subd. (c)(3)), and two prior strike convictions (§§ 667, subds. (b)–(i), 1170.12), and that he qualified as a habitual sex offender (§ 667.71, subd. (a)). The court sentenced Williams to a prison term of 75 years to life plus six years, composed of three consecutive, and four stayed, Three Strikes terms of 25-years-to-life for each count of lewd acts; a consecutive five-year enhancement for his serious felony prior; and one consecutive, and one stayed, one-year enhancements for his prison priors. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation identified Williams as currently serving a sentence that included at least one newly invalid prison prior enhancement, rendering him eligible for resentencing under section 1172.75. In February 2024, Williams filed a motion for resentencing under section 1172.75. He requested the sentencing court strike his invalid executed prison prior enhancement under section 1172.75, and exercise its discretion to strike his five-year serious felony prior enhancement