People v. Ketsouvannasane 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, E076512

v. (Super.Ct.No. CR57988)

KHAMCHAN BRET OPINION KETSOUVANNASANE,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from the Superior Court of Riverside County. John D. Molloy, Judge.

Reversed.

Robert L.S. Angres, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and

Appellant.

Rob Bonta, Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Chief Assistant Attorney

General, Julie L. Garland and Charles C. Ragland, Senior Assistant Attorneys General,

and Eric A. Swenson, Jennifer B. Truong, and Marvin E. Mizell, Deputy Attorneys

General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

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In 1995, petitioner Khamchan Bret Ketsouvannasane was convicted of (among

other things) first degree murder, with a robbery-murder special circumstance. In 2019,

he filed a petition for resentencing under Penal Code section 1172.6.1 The trial court

denied the petition; it ruled that the robbery-murder special circumstance finding