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Filed 4/26/16 P. v. Perkins CA4/3

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              IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

                                     FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

                                                DIVISION THREE

THE PEOPLE,

     Plaintiff and Respondent,                                         G052886

                   v.                                                  (Super. Ct. No. R-02333)

EVAN JERRY PERKINS,                                                    OPINION

     Defendant and Appellant.

                   Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Orange County,
Christopher Evans, Temporary Judge. (Pursuant to Cal. Const., art. VI, § 21.) Affirmed.
                   James M. Crawford, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for
Defendant and Appellant.
                   No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent.
                This is an unusual case. Appellant Evan Jerry Perkins released from jail on
February 3, 2014, and placed on Post Release Community Supervision (PRCS). Three
months later, a bench warrant was issued for his arrest because he had been arrested for
new criminal conduct and had failed to report a change of address.
                Appellant was not only arrested for new criminal conduct, he was convicted
and sentenced to 11 years in state prison. From prison, he filed a written request to recall
the bench warrant on this case and terminate his PRCS based on the fact he was in prison.
For reasons not reflected in the minute order, the request was denied, and appellant filed
this appeal on November 30, 2015. We appointed counsel to represent Perkins on appeal.
                Two weeks later, his attorney appeared in Orange County Superior Court
and made the same request whose denial had caused Perkins to appeal. This time, it was
granted: the bench warrant was recalled and the PRCS release terminated.
                This left appellate counsel nothing to argue. His client had received the
very relief he would have argued for. The only issue he could contest had been resolved
in his favor.
                Counsel filed a brief which set forth the facts of the case. Counsel did not
argue against his client, but advised the court no issues were found to argue on
appellant’s behalf. Appellant was given 30 days to file written argument in his own
behalf. Not surprisingly, that period has passed with no communication from appellant,
who got what he wanted.
                We have examined the record ourselves to see if we can find any arguable
issue and cannot. Appellant received the relief initially denied him. The timing of that
relief may have been problematic, but that clearly did not injure appellant in any way,
and the People have not appealed – probably because they consider the relief appropriate,
but perhaps because the denial was merely a clerical error correctible by the court even
while an appeal is pending. At any rate, it would be a waste of resources to send the
matter back for clarification of this issue. (See Pen. Code, § 1258.)

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             In short, there are no arguable issues on appeal. Appellate counsel was
correct in filing a brief pursuant to People v. Wende (1979) 25 Cal.3d 436 and Anders v.
California (1967) 386 U.S. 738, and the judgment is affirmed.

                                                BEDSWORTH, ACTING P. J.

WE CONCUR:

FYBEL, J.

IKOLA, J.

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