Court Opinion

ID: 3198980
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-04-28 21:02:12.048243+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:50:24.151819
License: Public Domain

Filed 4/28/16 P. v. Wooten CA5

                  NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS
California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for
publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule 8.1115(b). This opinion has not been certified for publication
or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115.

           IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
                                     FIFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

THE PEOPLE,
                                                                                           F069364
         Plaintiff and Respondent,
                                                                            (Super. Ct. Nos. F13910689 &
                   v.                                                                F11902121)

EVAN ALEXANDER WOOTEN,
                                                                                         OPINION
         Defendant and Appellant.

                                                   THE COURT*
         APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Fresno County. Wayne R.
Ellison, Judge.
         Melissa Baloian Sahatjian, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for
Defendant and Appellant.
         Office of the State Attorney General, Sacramento, California, for Plaintiff and
Respondent.
                                                        -ooOoo-

         *Before     Gomes, Acting P.J., Poochigian, J., and Peña, J.
                                   INTRODUCTION
      Appellant Evan Alexander Wooten pled guilty to manufacturing a controlled
substance, a violation of Health and Safety Code section 11379.6, subdivision (a), and
was placed on formal felony probation. Wooten violated probation several times.
Ultimately, Wooten was found guilty of first-degree burglary and grand theft of a firearm
and sentenced to prison. Wooten appealed. Appellate counsel filed a brief pursuant to
People v. Wende (1979) 25 Cal. 3d 436. We affirm.
                      FACTS AND PROCEDURAL SUMMARY
      On April 15, 2011, Wooten was charged in case No. F11902121 with violating
Health and Safety Code section 11379.6, subdivision (a), a felony, by manufacturing hash
oil. On January 10, 2012, Wooten was sentenced and placed on three years’ formal
felony probation.
      Wooten admitted his first violation of probation on March 29, 2013. He admitted
a second violation of probation on June 11, 2013. Wooten admitted a third violation of
probation on September 10, 2013.
      On November 19, 2013, a new criminal complaint was filed as case
No. F13910689 charging Wooten with first-degree burglary and grand theft of a firearm,
both felonies. On December 16, 2013, Wooten was arraigned on a fourth violation of
probation and remanded into custody with a no-bail provision. He also was facing
charges in case No. F13911632 for possession of methamphetamine for sale.
      Wooten was arraigned on the burglary and grand theft charges on January 21,
2014. Wooten entered a not-guilty plea to both charges on February 5, 2014. Jury trial
commenced on April 1, 2014.
      On February 20, 2013, Wooten arrived at the home of an acquaintance, Darren
Duggins. Wooten found Duggins in the back yard of the residence and asked to borrow
money. The two men got into an argument when Duggins declined to lend Wooten
money, and Wooten ran into Duggins’s house.

                                           2.
      After Wooten entered the house through an open sliding door, Duggins heard a
“bang,” “like something kicked down.” Duggins was in a wheelchair and tried to grab
his crutches, but, by the time he was able, he saw Wooten running from the residence
with a shotgun. The door jamb of an interior door in the house had been broken. The 12-
gauge shotgun Duggins kept in that room was missing. Duggins did not give Wooten
permission to take his shotgun.
      Sarah Fairbanks testified that she saw Wooten inside the house taking Duggins’s
shotgun. She yelled at Wooten to put the weapon down, but Wooten walked away. On
the date of the incident, Fairbanks was under the influence of prescription medication.
She did recall that Wooten and Duggins got into a fight.
      The trial concluded on April 4, 2014, with the jury finding Wooten guilty of both
counts.
      Wooten was sentenced on May 7, 2014. The People moved to dismiss the charges
in case No. F13911632, which was granted. The trial court denied probation in case
No. F13910689 and found Wooten in violation of his felony probation in case
No. F11902121 based upon the convictions in case No. F13910689. Wooten was
sentenced to the mitigated term of three years on the manufacturing-a-controlled-
substance conviction, and the mitigated term of two years in prison on the burglary
conviction, to be served concurrent to the term for the manufacturing-a-controlled-
substance conviction. The term for the grand theft conviction was stayed pursuant to
Penal Code section 654. Various fines and fees were imposed.
      The felony abstract of judgment filed May 7, 2014, failed to reflect that the term
for grand theft was stayed pursuant to section 654. On May 8, 2014, Wooten filed a
notice of appeal. Appellate counsel was appointed August 12, 2014.
      By order dated September 11, 2014, appellate counsel’s request to augment the
record was granted. On December 3, 2014, appellate counsel requested the trial court

                                            3.
prepare a corrected abstract of judgment so that the abstract would accurately reflect the
trial court’s oral pronouncement.
       On request of Wooten’s appellate counsel, on December 23, 2014, this court
deemed the notice of appeal to be an appeal from the judgment in both case
Nos. F11902121 and F13910689. The record was ordered augmented on February 10,
2015, at the request of appellate counsel.
                                      DISCUSSION
       Appellate counsel filed a brief pursuant to People v. Wende, supra, 25 Cal. 3d 436,
on May 22, 2015. In the brief, counsel notes that the abstract of judgment was corrected
by the trial court on December 5, 2014, as requested, to accurately reflect the oral
pronouncement of judgment. On May 22, 2015, this court issued its letter inviting
Wooten to submit a supplemental brief. No supplemental brief was filed.
       After an independent review of the record, we find that no reasonably arguable
factual or legal issues exist.
                                      DISPOSITION
       The judgment is affirmed.

                                             4.