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Filed 11/6/23 P. v. Parker CA2/8
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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

                         SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

                                      DIVISION EIGHT

THE PEOPLE,                                                     B326776

         Plaintiff and Respondent,                              (Los Angeles County
                                                                Super. Ct. No. BA329920)
         v.

ANTHONY PARKER,

         Defendant and Appellant.

     APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los
Angeles County, Eleanor J. Hunter, Judge. Affirmed.

     Nancy L. Tetreault, under appointment by the Court of
Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

         No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent.

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      Pursuant to People v. Delgadillo (2022) 14 Cal.5th 216, we
review this appeal of an order denying a petition for resentencing
brought under Penal Code section 1172.6. We affirm.
                        BACKGROUND
     On April 25, 2012, the People charged Anthony Parker by
second amended information with the first degree murder of
Thomas Rankins in violation of Penal Code section 187,
subdivision (a).1 The facts are brief for purposes of the
resentencing petition and we set them out for context only. On
August 27, 2007, Parker and co-defendant Kurt August drove
into a neighborhood in Los Angeles. August was driving. Parker
got out of the car and approached a group of people standing on
the street. He pulled a gun from his waistband and began
shooting. Thomas Rankins died of gunshot wounds to the head
and back. No one else, including witness Kia Nichols, was
injured. (People v. Anthony Parker (July 2, 2015, B251525)
[nonpub. opn.].)
       On May 7, 2012, a jury found Parker guilty of first degree
murder. It also found true allegations that Parker acted to
benefit his gang, personally used and discharged a handgun, and
personally discharged a handgun inflicting great bodily injury
and death to Thomas Rankins within the meaning of sections
186.22, subdivision (b)(1)(C), 12022.53, subdivisions (d) and
(e)(1). The trial court sentenced Parker to consecutive terms of
25 years to life on the murder conviction and the gun

1    Undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code.
We note the charging document and verdict form name the victim
as Thomas Rankins. Our prior opinion names the victim as
Thomas Rankin.

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enhancement. This court affirmed the judgment of conviction.
(People v. Anthony Parker, supra, B251525.)
       On July 14, 2022, Parker filed a petition for resentencing
under section 1172.6. The trial court appointed counsel, ordered
and considered briefing, and held a hearing to determine if
Parker had established a prima facie case of eligibility for
resentencing. On August 26, 2022, the court found Parker
ineligible for resentencing as a matter of law. The court reviewed
the jury instructions of Parker’s trial and found the jury had not
been instructed on the natural and probable consequences
doctrine or the felony murder rule. It also noted the jury found
Parker guilty of first degree murder and found true that Parker
had personally and intentionally discharged a handgun causing
great bodily injury and death to the victim. The trial court
denied the petition without issuing an order to show cause or
proceeding to an evidentiary hearing. Parker filed a notice of
appeal.
       We appointed counsel to represent Parker on appeal. On
July 26, 2023, counsel filed a no-issue brief pursuant to People v.
Delgadillo. Counsel advised us she had told appellant he may
file his own supplemental brief within 30 days. Counsel sent
appellant transcripts of the record on appeal as well as a copy of
the brief.
       On July 27, 2023, this court sent Parker a notice that a
brief raising no issues had been filed on his behalf. We advised
him he had 30 days within which to submit a supplemental brief
or letter stating any ground for appeal he believes we should
consider. We also advised him that if he did not file a
supplemental brief, the appeal may be dismissed as abandoned.

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       On August 25, 2023, Parker filed a supplemental brief
challenging witness Kia Nichols’s identification of him as the
shooter. He argued that Nichols’s identification of him was
unduly suggestive based on the position of his photograph in the
six-pack Nichols reviewed and a detective’s comments to Nichols
as she reviewed the six-pack.
       This contention is not properly raised in an appeal from the
denial of a section 1172.6 petition for resentencing. (People v.
Farfan (2021) 71 Cal.App.5th 942, 947 [the mere filing of a
setion1172.6 petition does not afford the petitioner a new
opportunity to raise claims of trial error or attack the sufficiency
of the evidence supporting the jury’s findings]; People v. Allison
(2020) 55 Cal.App.5th 449, 461 [a petition for resentencing does
not provide a do-over on factual disputes that have already been
resolved], disapproved on another ground in People v. Strong
(2022) 13 Cal.5th 698, 718, fn. 3.)
       We are not otherwise required to conduct an independent
review of the record in an appeal from an order denying a petition
for resentencing filed pursuant to section 1172.6 and we decline
to do so. (People v. Delgadillo, supra, 14 Cal.5th at p. 226.)

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                          DISPOSITION
     The order is affirmed.

     NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS

                                        STRATTON, P. J.

We concur:

             GRIMES, J.

             WILEY, J.

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