People v. Greenwood CA4/3

Filed 3/17/26 P. v. Greenwood CA4/3

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION THREE

THE PEOPLE,

Plaintiff and Respondent, G064807

v. (Super. Ct. No. 23HF1973)

MAXI YVONNE GREENWOOD, OPINION

Defendant and Appellant.

Appeal from an order of the Superior Court of Orange County, Carlton P. Biggs, Retired Judge. (Retired judge of the Orange Super. Ct. assigned by the Chief Justice pursuant to art. VI, § 6 of the Cal. Const.) Affirmed. Ryan Peabody, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent.

* * * Defendant Maxi Yvonne Greenwood was arrested after she allegedly did “donuts” in a parking lot going upwards of 70 miles per hour while swerving around pedestrians and other vehicles. She pled guilty to misdemeanor assault with a deadly weapon (Pen. Code, § 245, subd. (a)(1)), reckless driving in an off-street parking facility (Veh. Code, § 23103, subd. (b)), and two counts of resisting and obstructing a law enforcement officer (Pen. Code, § 148, subd. (a)(1)). The trial court sentenced her to 242 days in jail, giving Greenwood credit for time served in that amount, and suspended imposition of the sentence pending one year of formal probation. Just shy of six months after being sentenced, Greenwood filed a motion to withdraw her guilty plea pursuant to Penal Code section 1018. An accompanying declaration by her counsel set forth the alleged good cause on which the motion was based, which included the following: at the time she pled guilty, she was in-custody in Orange County and had an out-of-county hold from San Diego County based on two then-pending matters; she “was under emotional duress to enter pleas of guilty to a credit-for-time served sentence” because jail personnel were allegedly “verbally, psychologically and emotionally abusive” to her; she also felt “unjustly pressured” because “she feared that the San Diego County cases and serious charges would be used against her if she went to trial on her Orange County matters when she maintained her innocence on them and wished to fight the San Diego allegations”; and after being released on probation in this case, a jury found her not guilty in one of the San Diego cases and the other was dismissed by the prosecution.