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Date Created: 2023-11-22 19:02:20.573941+00
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Filed 11/22/23 P. v. Williams 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,                                      E081450

 v.                                                                      (Super.Ct.No. FWV023670)

 LATASHA DIANE WILLIAMS,                                                 OPINION

          Defendant and Appellant.

         APPEAL from the Superior Court of San Bernardino County. Jon D. Ferguson,

Judge. Dismissed.

         Jennifer A. Gambale, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant

and Appellant.

         No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent.

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       On July 18, 2003, a jury found defendant and appellant Latasha Diane Williams

guilty of three counts of attempted voluntary manslaughter (Pen. Code, §§ 664, 192,

subd. (a), counts 1-3),1 three counts of assault with a firearm (§ 245, subd. (a)(2), counts

4-6), and three counts of discharging a firearm at another person from a motor vehicle

(§ 12034, subd. (c)), counts 7-9). The jury additionally found true allegations that

defendant personally used a firearm in all counts (§ 12022.5, subd. (a)(1)); personally and

intentionally discharged a firearm in counts 1 through 3 (§ 12022.53, subd. (c));

personally inflicted great bodily injury in counts 1, 2, 4, and 5 (§ 12022.7, subd. (a)); and

personally and intentionally discharged a firearm causing great bodily injury in counts 7

and 8 (§ 12022.53, subd. (d)). The court sentenced defendant to a term of imprisonment

of 61 years eight months to life. (Williams, supra, E037477.)

       On January 20, 2022, defendant filed a form petition for resentencing pursuant to

former section 1170.95.2 At a prima facie hearing on May 26, 2023, the trial court

denied the petition.

       On appeal, defendant’s appointed counsel has filed a brief pursuant to People v.

Delgadillo (2022) 14 Cal.5th 216 (Delgadillo), setting forth a statement of the case,

requesting that we independently review the record for error, and identifying one

       1 All further statutory references will be to the Penal Code.

       We take judicial notice of our prior opinion from defendant’s appeal from the
original judgment. (People v. Williams. (Aug. 9, 2006, E037477) [nonpub. opn.].)

       2 Effective June 30, 2022, Assembly Bill No. 200 (2021-2022 Reg. Sess.)
amended and renumbered section 1170.95 as section 1172.6. (Stats. 2022, ch. 58, § 10.)

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potentially arguable issue: whether the court erred in determining that defendant was not

eligible for relief.

       We gave defendant the opportunity to file a personal supplemental brief. We

noted that if she did not do so, we could dismiss the appeal; nevertheless, she has not

filed one. Under these circumstances, we have no obligation to independently review the

record for error. (Delgadillo, supra, 14 Cal.5th. at pp. 224-231.) Rather, we dismiss the

appeal. (Id. at pp. 231-232.)

                                     DISPOSITION

       The appeal is dismissed.

       NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN OFFICIAL REPORTS

                                                               McKINSTER
                                                                                Acting P. J.

We concur:

CODRINGTON
                          J.

RAPHAEL
                          J.

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