People v. Vinson CA3

Filed 11/23/22 P. v. Vinson CA3 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule 8.1115(b). This opinion has not been certified for publication or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115.

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

THE PEOPLE, C096242

Plaintiff and Respondent, (Super. Ct. No. 17FE006798)

v.

TERIS VINSON,

Defendant and Appellant.

This appeal arises from the trial court’s denial of defendant Teris Vinson’s petition for resentencing under former Penal Code section 1170.95. 1 2 We will dismiss the appeal.

1 Undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code. 2 The Legislature amended section 1170.95 effective January 1, 2022, under Senate Bill No. 775 (2021-2022 Reg. Sess.) (Stats. 2021, ch. 551). Further, effective June 30, 2022, the Legislature renumbered section 1170.95 to section 1172.6, without substantive change. (Stats. 2022, ch. 58, § 10.) For clarity and conformity with the petition, we will continue to refer to the statute as former section 1170.95 throughout the opinion.

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FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND We take the procedural facts from our prior decision in the direct appeal. (People v. Vinson (June 15, 2020, C088694) [nonpub. opn.].) We incorporated this case by reference upon defendant’s motion to augment the record. An amended consolidated complaint filed December 7, 2017, charged defendant with first degree murder. (§ 187, subd. (a).) It further alleged an enhancement for the use and personal and intentional discharge of a firearm causing great bodily injury or death (§ 12022.53, subds. (b), (c) & (d)), and two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm. (§ 29800, subd. (a)(1).) Finally, the complaint alleged defendant suffered a prior serious felony conviction. (§§ 667, subd. (a), 1192.7, subd. (c).) Defendant shot and killed his and his wife’s roommate, Janet, and her body was found unclothed, lying on a deflated air mattress, wrapped inside a car cover bound with duct tape. A jury found defendant guilty of murder and the two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, and found the enhancement he personally and intentionally discharged a firearm causing great bodily injury or death true. (§§ 187, subd. (a), 12022.53, subd. (d).) The trial court found the strike allegation true. The trial court sentenced defendant to 10 years four months, consecutive to an indeterminate term of 75 years to life. Defendant filed a postjudgment petition for resentencing. (Senate Bill No. 1437 (2017-2018 Reg. Sess.); Stats. 2018, ch. 1015, § 4.) After briefing and a hearing, the trial court issued a written ruling denying defendant’s petition. The court found: “[T]he changes to the laws regarding murder do not apply to [defendant’s] murder conviction. Contrary to [defendant’s] claim, there was no conviction for murder under felony murder or under the natural and probable consequences theory. The record of conviction shows the jury found [defendant] was the actual killer, convicted him of first degree murder, and found true [an] allegation that