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Date Created: 2013-10-18 22:54:09.831326+00
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Filed 10/18/13 P. v. Malanche CA5

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

THE PEOPLE,
                                                                                           F065646
         Plaintiff and Respondent,
                                                                              (Super. Ct. No. F09900010)
                   v.

JOSE CASILLAS MALANCHE,                                                                  OPINION
         Defendant and Appellant.

                                                   THE COURT*
         APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Fresno County. Hilary A.
Chittick, Judge.
         Cliff Gardner, 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 Wiseman, Acting P.J., Kane, J., and Poochigian, J.
                                    INTRODUCTION
       Appellant, Jose Casillas Malanche, was convicted after a jury trial of rape (Pen.
Code,1 § 261, subd. (a)(2); count 1), sodomy (§ 286, subd. (c)(2); count 2), and sexual
penetration (§ 289, subd. (a)(1); count 3). The jury also found that appellant personally
inflicted great bodily injury on the victim in the commission of each offense. (§ 12022.8,
former § 667.61, subd. (b).)2 This court filed an opinion in appellant’s first appeal, case
No. F060845, on March 2, 2012. We affirmed appellant’s convictions, found sentencing
error, and remanded the case for the trial court to exercise its discretion to sentence
appellant to concurrent or consecutive sentences on each count.
       The trial court conducted a new sentencing hearing on August 20, 2012. The court
found appellant’s conduct in committing the offenses to be egregious and imposed a
sentence of 15 years to life on count 1 and consecutive sentences in counts 2 and 3 of 15
years to life, for a total sentence of 45 years to life. The court stayed the great bodily
injury enhancements found true as to each count.3 The court imposed a $10,000

1      Subsequent statutory references are to the Penal Code unless otherwise noted.
2      A former version of section 667.61 was in effect at the time of the commission of
the crimes. (Stats. 2006, ch. 337, § 33, eff. Sept. 20, 2006, amended by Initiative
Measure (Prop. 83, § 12, approved Nov. 7, 2006, eff. Nov. 8, 2006).)
3       Appellant was originally sentenced under the determinate sentencing law on
counts 2 and 3 and in that sentence, the court imposed five-year sentences on the great
bodily injury enhancement alleged for each count. Under his new sentence, however,
appellant was sentenced under the one strike law to consecutive sentences of 15 years to
life on counts 2 and 3. The basis for imposing the alternative sentencing scheme under
the one strike law was that appellant had inflicted great bodily injury on the victim during
the commission of his sex offenses pursuant to section 667.61, subdivisions (b), (c), and
(e)(3) as it was then enacted. Because the court’s new sentence was under the one strike
law and the basis for sentencing under that law was the victim’s great bodily injury, the
court properly stayed sentences on the section 12022.8 great bodily injury enhancements
based on the identical criminal conduct pursuant to section 654. (See People v. Arndt
(1999) 76 Cal. App. 4th 387, 396-397 [section 654 does not preclude imposition of
punishment for injuries to multiple victims by one act, but trial court erred in imposing

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restitution fine. Appellate counsel has filed a brief seeking independent review of the
case by this court pursuant to People v. Wende (1979) 25 Cal. 3d 436 (Wende).
                           APPELLATE COURT REVIEW
       Appellant’s appointed appellate counsel has filed an opening brief that
summarizes the pertinent facts, raises no issues, and requests this court to review the
record independently. (Wende, supra, 25 Cal. 3d 436.) The opening brief also includes
the declaration of appellate counsel indicating that appellant was advised he could file his
own brief with this court. By letter on February 21, 2013, we invited appellant to submit
additional briefing. To date, he has not done so.
       After independent review of the record, we have concluded there are no
reasonably arguable legal or factual issues.
                                     DISPOSITION
       The judgment is affirmed.

punishment for more than one enhancement for injuries to the same victim]; People v.
Davis (1987) 191 Cal. App. 3d 1365, 1368 [kidnapping enhancement pursuant to section
667.8 properly stayed where it was based on same conduct as conviction for kidnapping
under section 209].)

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