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Filed 10/20/15 P. v. Davidson 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,                                       E063848

v.                                                                       (Super.Ct.No. FSB041285)

GILBERT EUGENE DAVIDSON,                                                 OPINION

         Defendant and Appellant.

         APPEAL from the Superior Court of San Bernardino County. John M. Pacheco,

Judge. Affirmed.

         Leonard J. Klaif, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and

Appellant.

         No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent.

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         Defendant and appellant Gilbert Eugene Davidson appeals from an order denying

his petition to reduce his conviction to a misdemeanor, pursuant to Penal Code

section 1170.18.1 We find no error and will affirm the order.

                               PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

         Defendant was charged by information with first degree residential burglary.

(§ 459, count 1.) The information also alleged that he had two prior strike convictions.

(§§ 1170.12, subds. (a)-(d) & 667, subds. (b)-(i).) On June 6, 2006, defendant was found

guilty as charged. At a bifurcated hearing, a trial court found true the prior strike

conviction allegations.

         On October 2, 2006, the court found that defendant was sane at the time of the

offense.

         On November 6, 2006, the court denied defendant’s motion to strike one or more

of his prior strike convictions.

         On January 8, 2007, the court sentenced defendant to 25 years to life in state

prison, with credit for time served.2

         Defendant filed a petition for resentencing under section 1170.126 (Proposition

36), which the court denied on March 7, 2013.

         1   All further statutory references will be to the Penal Code, unless otherwise
noted.
         2   The court subsequently modified the sentence by awarding additional conduct
credits.

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       In November 2014, California voters approved Proposition 47 (effective

November 5, 2014). (§1170.18.) “Proposition 47 makes certain drug- and theft-related

offenses misdemeanors, unless the offenses were committed by certain ineligible

defendants. These offenses had previously been designated as either felonies or wobblers

(crimes that can be punished as either felonies or misdemeanors).” (People v. Rivera

(2015) 233 Cal.App.4th 1085, 1091.) “Proposition 47 also created a new resentencing

provision: section 1170.18. Under section 1170.18, a person ‘currently serving’ a felony

sentence for an offense that is now a misdemeanor under Proposition 47, may petition for

a recall of that sentence and request resentencing in accordance with the statutes that

were added or amended by Proposition 47.” (Id. at p. 1092.)

       On February 2, 2015, defendant sent a handwritten letter to the district attorney’s

office, which was treated as a petition for resentencing under Proposition 47.

       On May 8, 2015, the court denied the petition because defendant’s current offense

was not within the purview of Proposition 47.

                                      DISCUSSION

       Defendant appealed and, upon his request, this court appointed counsel to

represent him. Counsel has filed a brief under the authority of People v. Wende (1979)

25 Cal.3d 436 and Anders v. California (1967) 386 U.S. 738, setting forth a statement of

the case and one potential arguable issue: whether there was anything in the record that

would indicate either the current offense or the prior 1992 burglary was a commercial

burglary, subject to reduction under section 1170.18. Counsel has also requested this

court to undertake a review of the entire record.

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       We offered defendant an opportunity to file a personal supplemental brief, which

he has not done.

                                    DISPOSITION

       The judgment is affirmed.

       NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN OFFICIAL REPORTS

                                                             HOLLENHORST
                                                                       Acting P. J.

We concur:

McKINSTER
                         J.

KING
                         J.

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