People v. Leyva CA2/6

Filed 6/7/16 P. v. Leyva CA2/6

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION SIX

THE PEOPLE, 2d Crim. No. B264249 (Super. Ct. No. 1353962) Plaintiff and Respondent, (Santa Barbara County)

v.

MANUEL LEYVA,

Defendant and Appellant.

Manuel Leyva appeals an order which vacated the granting of his Proposition 47 petition (the Safe Neighborhoods and Streets Act) ("the Act"). (Pen. Code, § 1170.18.)1 We conclude the trial court properly vacated the order granting that petition after it discovered that Leyva had previously been convicted of an offense that made him ineligible for Proposition 47 relief. We affirm. FACTS In 2011, Leyva was convicted of second degree commercial burglary (§ 459) and he was sentenced to a state prison term. After the passage of Proposition 47 (§ 1170.18), Leyva filed a petition for resentencing claiming that his 2011 felony conviction should be designated a misdemeanor. The trial court granted his petition. It reduced his commercial burglary

1 All statutory references are to the Penal Code unless otherwise stated.

conviction to a misdemeanor, resentenced him and ordered that he be released from prison. Leyva was not released from prison. One week after the trial court granted his Proposition 47 petition, it discovered that Leyva had been previously convicted of an offense that requires registration as a sex offender. (§ 290.) The trial court found Leyva was ineligible for the Proposition 47 relief it had granted. It issued an order stating, "[O]rder granting Prop. 47 relief and resentencing under Prop. 47 is vacated; prison sentence is reinstated." DISCUSSION Jurisdiction to Vacate the Proposition 47 Relief Order Leyva contends the trial court lacked jurisdiction to vacate the order that had granted his Proposition 47 petition. We disagree. Proposition 47 "changed portions of the Penal Code and Health and Safety Code to reduce various drug possession and theft-related offenses from felonies (or wobblers) to misdemeanors, unless the offenses were committed by certain ineligible offenders." (Alejandro N. v. Superior Court (2015) 238 Cal.App.4th 1209, 1222.) The Act has an exclusion provision for such ineligible offenders. The Act provides that a defendant may not petition for Proposition 47 relief if he or she committed "an offense requiring registration pursuant to subdivision (c) of section 290" as a sex offender. (§ 1170.18, subd. (i).) Here, after granting Leyva's Proposition 47 petition, the trial court discovered that Leyva had been convicted of an offense that required registration under section 290. The court consequently vacated the order granting the Proposition 47 petition. Leyva contends the trial court lacked jurisdiction to vacate that order or change the misdemeanor sentence he received as a result of the granting of the Proposition 47 petition. But Leyva was not eligible to file a petition under Proposition 47. When the court discovered his ineligibility, it properly vacated its prior order. (People v. Amaya (2015) 239 Cal.App.4th 379, 382, 388.) " '[A] sentence is generally