In re D.Z. CA3

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

In re D.Z., a Person Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law.

THE PEOPLE, C103897

Plaintiff and Respondent, (Super. Ct. No. JVJJ000027)

v.

D.Z.,

Defendant and Appellant.

D.Z. was found guilty of murder in adult criminal court for a homicide that a codefendant committed during an attempted carjacking when D.Z. was a minor. At sentencing, D.Z. was ordered to pay a $10,000 restitution fine and over $9,000 in direct victim restitution, which he fully paid. Later, after his murder conviction was vacated under Penal Code section 1172.6 and the matter transferred back to the juvenile court for resentencing, the juvenile court reset the restitution fine at $0 and assessed D.Z. for 25 percent of direct victim restitution.

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On appeal, D.Z. contends the juvenile court should have ordered the state to fully reimburse him for the $10,000 restitution fine and the amount of the direct victim restitution he had previously paid that exceeded his 25 percent allocation. We agree and will remand the matter to the juvenile court for further proceedings regarding the reimbursement of restitution. BACKGROUND When D.Z. was 17 years old, he participated in an attempted carjacking with codefendant Mikhael Vlasov, who fatally shot the victim C.C. (People v. Zhuk (July 18, 2008, C047365) [nonpub. opn.] (Zhuk I).)1 A month later, D.Z. unsuccessfully attempted to steal K.W.’s car. D.Z. was also accused of attempting to carjack a third person, I.W., while armed the night before C.C. was murdered. A jury found D.Z. guilty of the murder, attempted carjacking and attempted robbery of C.C., as well as the attempted carjacking of K.W. The jury found D.Z. not guilty of the attempted robbery and assault with a firearm of I.W. The trial court sentenced D.Z. to life without the possibility of parole, and this court affirmed his convictions on appeal. (Zhuk I, supra, C047365.) D.Z.’s sentence was later reduced to 25 years to life. (Zhuk II, supra, C093995.) During the initial sentencing hearing, the trial court imposed a $10,000 restitution fine and set direct victim restitution at $9,014.25. D.Z. paid each of those financial obligations in full. Nearly two decades later, D.Z. filed a petition for resentencing under Penal Code section 1172.6. Following an evidentiary hearing, the trial court granted D.Z.’s petition