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Date Created: 2023-12-28 20:02:16.857023+00
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Filed 12/28/23 P. v. Dawson 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,                                      E081953

 v.                                                                      (Super.Ct.No. FSB08119)

 GLEN ERVIN DAWSON,                                                      OPINION

          Defendant and Appellant.

         APPEAL from the Superior Court of San Bernardino County. Ronald M.

Christianson, Judge. (Retired Judge of the San Bernardino Super. Ct. assigned by the

Chief Justice pursuant to art. VI, § 6 of the Cal. Const.) Dismissed.

         Russell S. Babcock, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and

Appellant.

         No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent.

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       On June 12, 1996, defendant and appellant, Glen Ervin Dawson, pled guilty to

attempted murder (Pen. Code, §§ 664, 187, subd. (a), count 1)1 and admitted an

allegation he used a knife in his commission of the offense (former § 12022, subd. (b)).2

The court thereafter found true allegations that defendant had suffered a prior serious

felony conviction (§ 667, subd. (a)(1)) and two prior strike convictions (§ 667, subds. (b)-

(i)). The court sentenced defendant to 33 years to life. (Dawson I, supra, E018582;

Dawson II, supra, E060590.)

       On July 26, 2023, defendant filed a petition pursuant to Senate Bill No. 1393

(2017-2018 Reg. Sess.) to have his prior serious felony enhancement stricken. On

August 3, 2023, at an unreported hearing at which neither side was represented, the trial

court denied defendant’s petition finding that Senate Bill No. 1393 did not apply to cases

that were already final.

       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 and

identifying five potentially arguable issues: (1) whether the order denying defendant’s

petition is appealable; (2) whether Senate Bill No. 1393 applies to final judgments;

(3) whether section 1385 provides the court authority to strike defendant’s prior serious

       1 All further statutory references are to the Penal Code.

       2 We take judicial notice of our prior nonpublished opinions from defendant’s
appeal from the original judgment (People v. Dawson (April 8, 1997, E018582)
(Dawson I)), and his appeal from the denial of his section 1170.126 petition for
resentencing (People v. Dawson (Aug. 19, 2014, E060590) (Dawson II)).

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felony conviction enhancement; (4) whether the court should have held a hearing on

defendant’s petition; and (5) whether the court should have appointed counsel for

defendant.

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

noted that if he did not do so, we could dismiss the appeal; nevertheless, he 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.

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                                                                McKINSTER
                                                                                Acting P. J.

We concur:

MILLER
                          J.

FIELDS
                          J.

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