California Court of Appeal Feb 5, 2016 No. E064505Unpublished
Filed 2/5/16 P. v. Rodriguez CA4/2
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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT
DIVISION TWO
THE PEOPLE,
Plaintiff and Respondent, E064505
v. (Super.Ct.No. RIF149174)
MIRIAM JEANNETTE RODRIGUEZ, OPINION
Defendant and Appellant.
APPEAL from the Superior Court of Riverside County. Judith C. Clark, judge.
Affirmed.
Christine Vento, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and
Appellant.
No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent.
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Defendant and appellant Miriam Jeannette Rodriguez appeals from an order
denying her petition to reduce her grand theft conviction (Pen. Code1, § 487) to a
misdemeanor, pursuant to section 1170.18. We find no error and will affirm the order.
PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND2
Defendant was charged by information with numerous offenses. In counts 1 and
2, she was charged with elder financial abuse (§ 368, subd. (d)); counts 3, 11, 15, 16, 18,
21, 23, 26, and 28 charged her with grand theft (§ 487, subd. (a)); count 4 alleged she
filed a forged document with the county recorder (§ 115); counts 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, and
13 charged defendant with money laundering (§ 186.10, subd. (a)); counts 19 and 20
alleged identity theft (§ 530.5, subd. (a)); and counts 22, 24, 25, and 27 charged
residential burglary. (§ 459.)3 The information also included quantity enhancements as
to counts 1, 2, and 3 (§ 12022.6, subd. (a)(2)), and counts 5, 7, 9 (§ 186.10,
subd. (c)(1)(a)), and the burglary counts included an allegation that another person, not an
accomplice, was present at the time the burglaries were committed. (§ 667.5,
subd. (c)(21).)
1 All further statutory references will be to the Penal Code, unless otherwise noted.
2We have taken judicial notice of our opinion in the prior appeal (People v. Rodriguez (Mar. 8, 2013, E053806) [nonpub. opn.]) and the procedural background is taken, in part, from that opinion (Evid. Code, §§ 452, subd. (d), 459, subd. (a)).
3The information also included count 14, charging that defendant received or possessed stolen property respecting a home equity line of credit (Pen. Code, § 496, subd. (a)), and count 17, which alleged that defendant fraudulently induced an individual to sign a contract (Civ. Code, § 2945.4, subd. (g)). However, these counts were dismissed on motion by the People at the close of its case in chief.
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Defendant was tried by a jury and convicted of all counts, save those dismissed by
the People. At sentencing, the court denied probation and selected count 22 as the
principal term. The court imposed the midterm of four years for count 22, and imposed
consecutive terms (one-third the midterm) for counts 1, 5, 7, 9, 15, 18, 24, 25 and 27,
along with one-third the term for any enhancements. For counts 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13,
16, 19, and 20, the court imposed concurrent midterm sentences, and the court stayed
terms on counts 2, 21, 23, 26 and 28, pursuant to section 654. This court subsequently
modified the judgment to stay the sentence on count 9. (People v. Rodriguez, supra,
E053806.)
In November 2014, California voters approved Proposition 47 (effective
November 5, 2014). (§ 1170.18.) “Proposition 47 makes certain drug- and theft-related
offenses misdemeanors, unless the offenses were committed by certain ineligible
defendants. These offenses had previously been designated as either felonies or wobblers
(crimes that can be punished as either felonies or misdemeanors).” (People v. Rivera
(2015) 233 Cal.App.4th 1085, 1091.) “Proposition 47 also created a new resentencing
provision: section 1170.18. Under section 1170.18, a person ‘currently serving’ a felony
sentence for an offense that is now a misdemeanor under Proposition 47, may petition for
a recall of that sentence and request resentencing in accordance with the statutes that
were added or amended by Proposition 47.” (Id. at p. 1092.)
On January 8, 2015, defendant filed a Proposition 47 petition for resentencing.
(§ 1170.18.) On the application form, she checked the boxes stating that she was
convicted of grand theft and that she “believes the value of the check or property does not
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exceed $950.” On July 3 2015, the court denied the petition, finding that all the counts
were either “not qualifying felonies or [the] amounts of loss exceed[ed] $950.”
DISCUSSION
Defendant appealed and, upon her request, this court appointed counsel to
represent her. Counsel has filed a brief under the authority of People v. Wende (1979) 25
Cal.3d 436 and Anders v. California (1967) 386 U.S. 738, setting forth a statement of the
case and several potential arguable issues: (1) whether counts 19 and 20 (§ 530.5,
subd. (a)) qualified for sentence reduction under section 1170.18; (2) whether there was
proof on counts 19 and 20 that the amount on each count was under $950, and whether
defendant had the burden of proof; (3) whether count 4 qualified for sentence reduction
under section 1170.18; and (4) whether any of the other counts qualified for sentence
reduction under section 1170.18 . Counsel has also requested this court to undertake a
review of the entire record.
We offered defendant an opportunity to file a personal supplemental brief, which
she has not done.
Pursuant to the mandate of People v. Kelly (2006) 40 Cal.4th 106, we have
conducted an independent review of the record and find no arguable issues.
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DISPOSITION
The judgment is affirmed.
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HOLLENHORST J.
We concur:
RAMIREZ P. J.
MILLER J.
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AI Brief
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Holding. The court affirmed the denial of the defendant's petition for resentencing under Proposition 47, finding no arguable issues after an independent review of the record.
Issues
Whether the defendant's convictions for identity theft, filing a forged document, and other offenses qualified for sentence reduction under Penal Code section 1170.18.
Whether the defendant met the burden of proof regarding the value of property involved in the theft-related counts.
Disposition. Affirmed
Quotations verified verbatim against the opinion
“We find no error and will affirm the order.”
“Pursuant to the mandate of People v. Kelly (2006) 40 Cal.4th 106, we have conducted an independent review of the record and find no arguable issues.”