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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION ONE

THE PEOPLE,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

MARIAH MILIKA JILES,

Defendant and Appellant.

 B302985

 (Los Angeles County

 Super. Ct. No. BA424131)

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los 

Angeles County, Robert Perry, Judge. Affirmed.

Benjamin Owens, under appointment by the Court of 

Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. 

No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent. 

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In 2014, Mariah Jiles fired a gun at Leon Merritt from the 

backseat of a van, with her two-year-old child beside her, 

wounding Merritt. She was convicted of attempted premeditated 

murder, shooting into an occupied vehicle, and felony child 

endangerment, and it was found true that she personally 

discharged a firearm causing great bodily injury. Jiles was 

sentenced to a term of life for the attempted murder, plus 25-tolife for the attendant firearm allegation, plus two years for child 

endangerment. The court stayed sentences for shooting at an 

occupied motor vehicle and the attendant firearm finding. 

We affirmed the conviction but remanded the case for the 

trial court to exercise its newfound discretion to strike the 

firearm enhancement pursuant to recently amended Penal Code 

section 12022.53, subdivision (h). (People v. Mosby (Jan. 31, 

2019, B281541) [nonpub. opn.].)

At resentencing, Jiles requested that the firearm 

enhancement be stricken, and argued that she could not be 

sentenced to a life term for attempted premeditated murder—but 

only seven years for unpremeditated attempted murder—because

the second amended information contained no premeditation 

allegation. The trial court upheld the premeditation allegation, 

struck the Penal Code section 12022.53, subdivision (d) 

enhancement (25-to-life for discharging a firearm and causing 

great bodily injury during an attempted murder), and imposed 

instead the subdivision (b) enhancement (10 years for personally 

using a firearm during an attempted murder).

Jiles appeals. 

We appointed counsel to represent Jiles on appeal. After 

examination of the record, appointed counsel filed an opening 

brief raising no issues and asking this court to review the record 
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independently. (People v. Wende (1979) 25 Cal.3d 436, 441-442.) 

On June 25, 2020, we sent letters to Jiles and appointed counsel, 

directing counsel to forward the appellate record to Jiles and 

advising her that within 30 days she could personally submit any 

contentions or issues that she wished us to consider. She has not 

responded. We have examined the entire record and find no 

arguable issue exists, and are therefore satisfied Jiles’s attorney 

complied with his responsibilities. (Id. at p. 441.)

DISPOSITION

The order is affirmed.

NOT TO BE PUBLISHED 

CHANEY, J.

We concur:

ROTHSCHILD, P. J.

BENDIX, J.