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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION FIVE

THE PEOPLE,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

ALONZO MCKINNEY,

Defendant and Appellant.

 B269397

 (Los Angeles County

 Super. Ct. No. YA021728)

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Alan 

Honeycutt, Judge. Affirmed.

Law Offices of Elizabeth K. Horowitz, Elizabeth K. Horowitz, under appointment 

by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent.
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INTRODUCTION

Defendant and appellant Alonzo McKinney (defendant) appealed from an order 

denying his petition for resentencing under Penal Code section 1170.18.1 On appeal, 

defendant’s appointed counsel filed an opening brief in accordance with People v. Wende

(1979) 25 Cal.3d 436 (Wende) requesting that this court conduct an independent review 

of the record to determine if there are any arguable appellate issues. On April 8, 2016, 

we gave notice to defendant that his counsel had failed to find any arguable issues and 

that defendant had 30 days within which to submit by brief any arguments he wished this 

court to consider. Defendant filed a supplemental brief in which he contends that his 

alleged felony conviction under section 487.2 should be reduced to a misdemeanor or the 

matter remanded to the trial court for resentencing. We have reviewed the record and 

affirm the order. 

BACKGROUND2

In September 2015, defendant filed a petition for resentencing pursuant to section 

1170.18,3seeking resentencing with respect to his alleged 1994 felony conviction under 

section 487.2. The trial court denied the petition, stating “[t]he court records are 

 

1 All statutory citations are to the Penal Code unless otherwise noted.

2 We omit a recitation of the facts concerning defendant’s underlying offense 

because defendant’s appeal is from an order denying a post-judgment petition for 

resentencing.

3 Section 1170.18, subdivision (a) provides, “A person currently serving a sentence 

for a conviction, whether by trial or plea, of a felony or felonies who would have been 

guilty of a misdemeanor under the act that added this section (‘this act’) had this act been 

in effect at the time of the offense may petition for a recall of sentence before the trial 

court that entered the judgment of conviction in his or her case to request 

resentencing . . . .”
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incomplete and do not show the charge the defendant was convicted of in 1994. Burden

is on the petitioner/defendant.”

On appeal, we took judicial notice of the microfilm records of the trial court file,

according to which in November 1994 the District Attorney of Los Angeles County filed 

an information charging defendant with one count of second degree robbery in violation 

of section 211, and related charges. Those records indicate that defendant was not 

convicted in the underlying case. They contain signed and filed verdict forms stating that 

defendant was found not guilty of second degree robbery (count 1), and grand theft 

person in violation of section 487.2, the necessary included offense of count 1. 

Defendant was acquitted.4 The microfilm records include a filed but unsigned verdict 

form concerning “Grand Theft Person, a felony, in violation of . . . Section 487.2, a lesser 

necessarily included offense than that as charged in Count [1] of the information,” and 

defendant’s supplemental brief relies upon this unsigned verdict form.

DISCUSSION

A. Grand Theft Person

Defendant contends that because he was convicted of, and sentenced for, the 

felony of grand theft person in violation of section 487.2, that crime should be reduced to 

a misdemeanor or the matter should be remanded to the trial court for resentencing. We 

disagree. Defendant was found not guilty of the charges asserted against him, including 

the lesser included offense of grand theft person in violation of section 487.2, and was 

acquitted. Defendant has not established that the trial court erred in denying his petition.

 

4 We take judicial notice of an abstract of judgment in Los Angeles Superior Court 

case number BA140260, filed on November 4, 1997, reflecting that in 1997, shortly after 

his acquittal in the underlying case, defendant was convicted of assault on an officer in a 

violation section 245(c) and resisting an executive officer in a violation of section 69 and 

sentenced to state prison for a term of 25 years to life with the possibility of parole.
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B. Review

In addition to reviewing the matters raised in defendant’s supplemental brief, we 

have made an independent examination of the entire record to determine if there are any 

other arguable issues on appeal. Based on that review, we have determined that there are 

no other arguable issues on appeal. We are therefore satisfied that defendant’s counsel 

has fully complied with her responsibilities under Wende, supra, 25 Cal.3d 436.

DISPOSITION

The order is affirmed.

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RAPHAEL J.

We concur:

TURNER, P.J.

KRIEGLER, J.

 

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Judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court, assigned by the Chief Justice pursuant 

to article VI, section 6 of the California Constitution.