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Date Created: 2022-04-29 17:02:08.63688+00
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Filed 4/29/22 P. v. Windfield 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,                                      E077857

 v.                                                                      (Super.Ct.No. FVA900999)

 KEANDRE DION WINDFIELD,                                                 OPINION

          Defendant and Appellant.

         APPEAL from the Superior Court of San Bernardino County. Steven A. Mapes.

Judge. Affirmed.

         David P. Lampkin, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and

Appellant.

         No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent.

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        Defendant and appellant Keandre Dion Windfield appeals the decision of the San

Bernardino County Superior Court not to strike personal firearm use enhancements

imposed pursuant to section 12022.53 of the Penal Code.1

                                             BACKGROUND

        In 2011, defendant was convicted of one count of murder, one count of attempted

murder, and assault with a semi-automatic firearm. The murder and attempted murder

counts included firearm enhancements imposed pursuant to former section 12022.53,

which made imposition of the enhancements mandatory. He was sentenced to 90 years to

life.

        Defendant appealed the judgment. (People v. Windfield (2021) 59 Cal.App.5th

496 (Windfield I).) While his appeal was pending, the Legislature amended section

12022.53 to give sentencing courts discretion with respect to imposing firearm

enhancements. (§ 12022.53, subd. (h); Senate Bill No. 620 (2017-1018 Reg. Sess.; Stats.

2017, ch. 682.) We affirmed the judgment but remanded the matter to the trial court with

instructions, including a directive that the court consider whether to strike the firearm

enhancements in light of the amendment to section 12022.53. (Windfield I., supra, at p.

532.)

        On remand, the trial court provided an opportunity for the parties to brief the

issues in anticipation of the hearing on the remittitur. It also requested a recommendation

from the probation department as to whether it should strike the firearm enhancements.

        1   All further statutory references are to the Penal Code.

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In reply, that department said it would defer to the court’s better judgment, explaining it

did not have a common practice of making recommendations with respect to the

dismissal or striking of enhancements.

       At the hearing, the court heard the parties’ arguments. It agreed there were

important factors in mitigation (such as defendant was only 18 at the time of the crime

and he had experienced a horrible childhood). It concluded, however, that those factors

did not overcome the totality of circumstances, including the fact a firearm was “the

weapon of choice used to deliver death,” and declined to exercise its discretion to strike

the firearm enhancements. Defendant appealed.

                                   DISCUSSION

       Defendant’s counsel has filed a brief under the authority of People v. Wende

(1979) 25 Cal.3d 436 and Anders v. California (1967) 386 U.S 738 setting forth

statements of the case and facts, and three potentially arguable issues:

       (1) Whether it was error for the trial court to fail to request an updated probation

report before ruling on the request to strike the firearm enhancements;

       (2) Whether the record affirmatively demonstrates that the court did not consider

defendant’s 10 years of post-conviction conduct before ruling on the issue of striking the

firearm enhancements; and,

       (3) Whether the court’s reference to defendant’s use of a firearm “to deliver

death” indicated a categorical disinclination to strike firearm enhancements in any case in

which use of a firearm resulted in a death.

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      We offered defendant an opportunity to file a personal supplemental brief, which

he has not done.

      Pursuant to the mandate of People v. Kelly (2006) 40 Cal.4th 106, we have

conducted an independent review of the record and find no arguable issues.

                                         DISPOSITION

      The judgment is affirmed.

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                                                             RAMIREZ
                                                                                   P. J.

We concur:

MILLER
                         J.

CODRINGTON
                         J.

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