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Date Created: 2022-10-27 20:02:02.818545+00
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Filed 10/27/22 P. v. Campos CA3
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              IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
                                      THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT
                                                    (San Joaquin)
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THE PEOPLE,                                                                                  C095280

                   Plaintiff and Respondent,                                   (Super. Ct. No. STK-CR-FE-
                                                                                     2013-0006470)
         v.

DANIEL CAMPOS,

                   Defendant and Appellant.

         This appeal comes to us pursuant to People v. Wende (1979) 25 Cal.3d 436
(Wende). For the reasons we explain, this appeal shall be dismissed.

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                    FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
        The People’s amended information charged defendant Daniel Campos with
attempted murder (Pen. Code, §§ 664/187;1 count 1), assault with a semiautomatic
weapon (§ 245, subd. (b); count 2), and willful participation in a criminal street gang
(§ 186.22, subd. (a); count 3). The amended information further alleged enhancements
that included the use of a firearm (§ 12022.53, subds. (b)-(e)), infliction of great bodily
injury (§ 12022.7), that the offense was committed for the benefit of, at the direction of,
or in association with a criminal street gang (§ 186.22, subd. (b)), and that the murder
was punishable by death and imprisonment for life and that defendant had been 14 years
old at the time he committed the charged offenses. (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 707, former
subd. (d)(2)(a).)
        On February 19, 2015, defendant resolved this criminal matter by pleading guilty
to attempted murder with a firearm enhancement and participation in a criminal street
gang, as well as admitting the allegations under Welfare and Institutions Code former
section 707. The remaining count and allegations were dismissed and/or stricken, and he
received a prison sentence of 17 years 8 months. Defendant did not appeal this sentence,
which became final in 2015 when the time to seek certiorari in the Supreme Court of the
United States passed. (See People v. Lizarraga (2020) 56 Cal.App.5th 201, 206
(Lizarraga) [“A ‘judgment is not final until the time for petitioning for a writ of certiorari
in the United States Supreme Court has passed.’ ”].)
        In November 2016, the electorate passed Proposition 57, which required
prosecutors to seek approval from the juvenile court prior to trying juvenile offenders as
adults. (People v. Superior Court (Lara) (2018) 4 Cal.5th 299, 305.) In Lara, our high
court determined Proposition 57 applied “to all juveniles charged directly in adult court

1   Further undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code.

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whose judgment was not final at the time it was enacted.” (Lara, at p. 304.) It does not
apply to final judgments. (Lizarraga, supra, 56 Cal.App.5th at pp. 207-208.)
        Similarly, Senate Bill No. 1391 (2017-2018 Reg. Sess.) went into effect on
January 1, 2019, and “amended Proposition 57 by eliminating the transfer of juveniles
accused of committing crimes when they are 14 or 15 years old, unless they are first
apprehended after the end of juvenile court jurisdiction. (See Welf. & Inst. Code, § 707,
subd. (a)(1)-(2), as amended by Stats. 2018, ch. 1012, § 1.)” (O.G. v. Superior Court
(2021) 11 Cal.5th 82, 89.) This legislation has also been held to apply to nonfinal
judgments. (People v. Superior Court (I.R.) (2019) 38 Cal.App.5th 383, 393.)
        Thereafter, on February 3, 2020, defendant filed a motion in propria persona
seeking a Franklin2 hearing, which the trial court granted. Defendant later supplemented
this request with a motion to remand the matter to the juvenile court in light of the
passage of Proposition 57 and Senate Bill No. 1391. The People opposed defendant’s
remand request, arguing defendant’s sentence was final, and thus, he was ineligible for
relief. On November 29, 2021, deciding only defendant’s remand request, the trial court
denied defendant’s motion. Defendant timely appealed, and appellate briefing in this
matter was completed on September 12, 2022.
                                       DISCUSSION
        We appointed counsel to represent defendant on appeal. Counsel filed an opening
brief that sets forth the relevant procedural history of the case and requests this court to
review the record and determine whether there are any arguable issues on appeal.
(Wende, supra, 25 Cal.3d 436.) Defendant was advised by counsel of the right to file a
supplemental brief within 30 days of the date the opening brief was filed and has not
done so.

2   People v. Franklin (2016) 63 Cal.4th 261.

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       Review pursuant to Wende or its federal constitutional counterpart Anders v.
California (1967) 386 U.S. 738 is required only in the first appeal of right from a
criminal conviction. (Pennsylvania v. Finley (1987) 481 U.S. 551, 555; Conservatorship
of Ben C. (2007) 40 Cal.4th 529, 536-537; People v. Serrano (2012) 211 Cal.App.4th
496, 500-501.) Our Supreme Court is currently considering whether, and to what extent,
this limited right to review extends to appeals from postjudgment orders such as this one.
(See People v. Delgadillo (Nov. 18, 2020, B304441) [nonpub. opn.], review granted
Feb. 17, 2021, S266305.)
       In the interim, we follow the numerous intermediate courts that have agreed a
defendant appealing from an order denying postconviction relief is not entitled to our
independent review of the record pursuant to Wende. (People v. Cole (2020)
52 Cal.App.5th 1023, 1039, review granted Oct. 14, 2020, S264278; People v. Figueras
(2021) 61 Cal.App.5th 108, 112-113, review granted May 12, 2021, S267870; People v.
Freeman (2021) 61 Cal.App.5th 126, 133; People v. Serrano, supra, 211 Cal.App.4th at
p. 503.)
       Here, defendant’s counsel has sought Wende review of the trial court’s denial of
defendant’s request to remand his then-final case to juvenile court for a transfer hearing.
Defendant has not filed a supplemental brief, and we believe this is precisely the kind of
appeal that should be dismissed as abandoned. (See People v. Cole, supra,
52 Cal.App.5th at p. 1039, review granted; People v. Figueras, supra, 61 Cal.App.5th at
pp. 112-113.) Nonetheless, we note given the procedural posture of defendant’s case, he
was not entitled to the relief he sought. (See Lizarraga, supra, 56 Cal.App.5th at p. 207
[grant of a Franklin hearing does not operate to reopen a final judgment].)

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                                 DISPOSITION
      The appeal is dismissed.

                                           /s/
                                          HOCH, J.

We concur:

 /s/
ROBIE, Acting P. J.

 /s/
EARL, J.

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