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Date Created: 2023-11-30 20:03:26.45655+00
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Filed 11/30/23 P. v. Rivas 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. B325034
                                                           (Super. Ct. No. BA425421)
     Plaintiff and Respondent,                               (Los Angeles County)

v.

ANTHONY RIVAS,

     Defendant and Appellant.

      A jury found Anthony Rivas guilty of first degree murder of
Ricardo Hernandez (count 1) (Pen. Code,1 §§ 187, subd. (a), 189),
with attendant personal and principal discharge of a firearm
(§ 12022.53, subds. (d) & (e)(1)) and criminal street gang findings
(§ 186.22, subd. (b)(1)(C)). The jury also found Rivas guilty of
assault with a semiautomatic firearm upon Antonio Beltran
(count 2) (§ 245, subd. (b)), with attendant personal infliction of
great bodily injury (§ 12022.7, subd. (a)), personal use of a

         1 All statutory references are to the Penal Code.
firearm (§ 12022.5, subd. (a)), and criminal street gang findings
(§ 186.22, subd. (b)(1)(C)).
       The trial court sentenced Rivas to life for murder plus 25
years to life for the attendant firearm enhancements, plus a
consecutive seven years four months for the assault and
attendant enhancements.
       We remanded for the trial court to exercise its discretion on
whether to dismiss the firearm enhancements in the interest of
justice. In all other respects, we affirmed. (People v. Rivas (Aug.
14, 2018, B269791) [nonpub. opn.].)
       On May 7, 2021, Rivas filed a petition for writ of habeas
corpus with the trial court. On May 26, 2022, the court denied
the parts of the petition challenging Rivas’s conviction and
granted the parts seeking resentencing. The court resentenced
appellant to 34 years to life, including 25 years for count 1, the
midterm of three years for count 2, and three years for the great
bodily injury and firearms enhancements for count 2, with 2,946
days credit, (2,562 days actual and 384 days conduct). The court
struck the 25-year firearm enhancement for count 1 and the gang
enhancement for count 2 in the interests of justice under section
1385.
       Rivas appeals the trial court’s order denying in part and
granting in part his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
       We appointed counsel to represent Rivas in this appeal.
After examining the record, counsel filed a brief under People v.
Delgadillo (2022) 14 Cal.5th 216, raising no issues.
       On October 6, 2023, we advised Rivas by mail that he had
30 days within which to personally submit any contentions or
issues that he wished to raise on appeal.

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       Rivas filed a supplemental brief. Rivas contends his
attorney was wrong in stating in his opening brief that the
information alleged Rivas had been convicted of three prior
serious or violent felonies and had suffered two prior prison
terms. Rivas appears to be correct. The information alleged the
prior felonies and prison terms against Rivas’s codefendant.
Nevertheless, the error in the opening brief is irrelevant. The
error in the opening brief had no effect on Rivas’s petition for a
writ of habeas corpus.
       The order is affirmed. (People v. Delgadillo (2022) 14
Cal.5th 216.)
       NOT TO BE PUBLISHED.

                                     GILBERT, P. J.

We concur:

             YEGAN, J.

             BALTODANO, J.

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                     Terry A. Bork, Judge

             Superior Court County of Los Angeles

               ______________________________

     David Ross Greifinger, under appointment by the Court of
Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
     No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent.