People v. Rude CA4/1

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COURT OF APPEAL, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION ONE

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

THE PEOPLE, D069020

Plaintiff and Respondent, (Super. Ct. No. RIF1206689) v.

RYAN E. RUDE,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Riverside County, Judith C.

Clark, Judge. Affirmed.

William D. Farber, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and

Appellant.

No appearances for Plaintiff and Respondent.

In 2013, a jury convicted Ryan E. Rude of numerous counts of grand theft,

securities fraud and offering and selling unqualified securities. The trial court sentenced

him to 26 years and four months in prison. In 2015, Rude filed a petition to reduce his

conviction for grand theft in counts 17, 39, 46 and 52 to a misdemeanor under

Proposition 47, the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, Penal Code section 1170.18.

(Undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code.) (See People v. Rivera (2015)

233 Cal.App.4th 1085, 1089 (Rivera).) The trial court denied the petition on the ground

he was ineligible for statutory relief as the loss on each count "exceed[ed] $950." Rude