Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2024-03-29 22:02:32.786207+00
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Filed 3/29/24 P. v. West CA1/5
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          IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

                                      FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT

                                                  DIVISION FIVE

 THE PEOPLE,
           Plaintiff and Respondent,                                     A168624
 v.
 DUSTIN MATTHEW WEST,                                                    (Napa County Super. Ct.
                                                                         Nos. 18CR003993, 18CR002622,
           Defendant and Appellant.                                      18CR003981)

                                       MEMORANDUM OPINION1
         In 2018 and 2019, Dustin Matthew West pled no contest to various
charges in three matters. In case No. 18CR003993, he pled no contest to
escape with force and criminal threats, and he admitted a prior strike
allegation. (§§ 4532, subd. (a)(2), 422, 667, subds. (b)–(i).) In case No.
18CR002622, he pled no contest to criminal threats and resisting an
executive officer, and he admitted a prior prison allegation. (§§ 422, 69,
former 667.5, subd. (b).) In case No. 18CR003981, he pled no contest to
vandalism, and he admitted a prior strike allegation. (§§ 594, subd. (a)(1),
667, subds. (b)–(i).) In 2019, the trial court sentenced him to an aggregate

         1 We resolve this case by memorandum opinion.(Cal. Stds. Jud.
Admin., § 8.1.) Undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code.

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term of 13 years in prison, which included a one-year enhancement for the
prison prior (former § 667.5, subd. (b)) imposed in case No. 18CR002622.
      In December 2022, West petitioned for resentencing in all three cases
pursuant to section 1172.75 (formerly § 1171.1), which invalidated
enhancements imposed under former section 667.5, subdivision (b) for
nonsexually violent offenses. He urged the court to vacate the prison prior
enhancement and to reduce his sentence pursuant to ameliorative sentencing
legislation enacted after he entered his pleas.
      In June 2023—and after considering the parties’ briefing and oral
argument, and a statement from West—the trial court struck the prior strike
(§ 667, subds. (b)–(i)) pursuant to section 1385 in case No. 18CR003981, and
it imposed a concurrent sentence on the vandalism conviction in that case. In
a reasoned and thorough ruling, the court declined to further reduce West’s
sentence. It sentenced West to an aggregate prison term of 10 years, eight
months, reimposing fines and assessments imposed at the original sentencing
hearing.
      West appealed. His appointed counsel filed a brief raising no issues
and asking this court to conduct an independent review of the record. (People
v. Wende (1979) 25 Cal.3d 436.) West was apprised of his right to file a
supplemental brief; he has not filed anything. We have conducted an
independent review of the record for arguable issues. (Cf. People v.
Delgadillo (2022) 14 Cal.5th 216, 231, fn. 5 [declining to decide “Wende’s
application to other postconviction contexts”], 233, fn. 6 [conducting an
“independent review in the interest of judicial economy”].)
                               DISPOSITION
      The June 2023 judgment is modified to reduce the court operations
assessment (§ 1465.8) to $200 and the criminal conviction assessment (Gov.

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Code, § 70373) to $150. The trial court is directed to issue an amended
abstract of judgment reflecting these modifications and checking the
“concurrent” box for the vandalism conviction in case No. 18CR003981. The
court is directed to send a copy of the amended abstract of judgment to the
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. As modified, the judgment is
affirmed.

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                                _________________________
                                JACKSON, P. J.

WE CONCUR:

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BURNS, J.

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CHOU, J.

A168624

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