Court Opinion

ID: 4017519
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Date Created: 2016-07-20 19:02:44.103152+00
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Filed 7/20/16 P. v. Winner CA3
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              IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
                                      THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT
                                                         (Butte)
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THE PEOPLE,                                                                                  C080965

                   Plaintiff and Respondent,                                    (Super. Ct. Nos. CM035413,
                                                                                        CM041745)
         v.

STACY ALAN WINNER,

                   Defendant and Appellant.

         Defendant Stacy Alan Winner appeals from the trial court’s order removing his
Penal Code section 1170.181 petition for resentencing from calendar, which the parties
agree functioned as a denial of the petition.

1   Further undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code.

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       The matter from which defendant purports to appeal (consolidated cases Nos.
CM035413 and CM041745) was already on appeal from a previous section 1170.18
resentencing at the time his petition was denied. The Attorney General asserts the trial
court lacked jurisdiction to entertain defendant’s petition as the underlying judgment was
on appeal at the time of the order. Defendant did not address jurisdiction in his opening
brief, and he did not file a reply brief. We agree with the Attorney General; accordingly,
we shall dismiss the appeal.
                                     BACKGROUND
       We do not set forth the details of defendant’s crimes as their consideration is
unnecessary to resolve this appeal. It suffices to say that defendant pleaded no contest to
possession of methamphetamine for sale (Health & Saf. Code, § 11378) and admitted a
strike (§§ 667, subds. (b)-(i), 1170.12, subds. (a)-(d)) and five prior prison terms (§ 667.5,
subd. (b)) in case No. CM035413. The trial court granted defendant’s motion to strike
the strike prior, suspended imposition of sentence, and placed defendant on 48 months of
formal probation.
       Defendant later pleaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine (Health & Saf.
Code, § 11377, subd. (a)) in case No. CM041745 and admitted violating his probation in
case No. CM035413. The trial court sentenced defendant to seven years eight months in
state prison for the two cases.
       On November 12, 2014, defendant filed a section 1170.18 petition for
resentencing on the possession conviction in case No. CM041745. The trial court
granted the petition, reducing the possession conviction to a misdemeanor, and
resentenced defendant. Defendant filed (two) timely notices of appeal as to the trial
court’s order, both designating case No. CM041745. On October 8, 2015, we granted
appellant’s motion to consider the notice(s) of appeal as also including case No.
CM035413.

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        On October 30, 2015, defendant filed a second section 1170.18 petition in an
unspecified case number which the court later clarified was case No. CM041745. At the
hearing on the petition, the trial court was informed that the appeal from its order on
defendant’s first petition (in these same two cases) was still pending. The court removed
the matter from calendar without ruling. Defendant timely appealed from the order
removing the hearing from calendar, including both cases (Nos. CM041745 and
CM035413) on his notice of appeal.
                                        DISCUSSION
        Defendant contends the trial court should have granted his second section 1170.18
petition as to the prison prior; as we have noted, he does not address jurisdiction.
        Defendant’s appeal of the trial court’s ruling on his first petition was pending
when the trial court held the hearing on defendant’s second petition on November 20,
2015.2 We had already deemed both relevant cases to be included in his appeal. “We
normally review a trial court’s ruling based on the facts known to the trial court at the
time of the ruling. [Citation.]” (People v. Cervantes (2004) 118 Cal.App.4th 162, 176.)
The pending appeal of the only two cases arguably affected by the trial court’s decision
in the first petition deprived the trial court of jurisdiction to rule on the second petition
concerning these same two cases. (People v. Scarbrough (2015) 240 Cal.App.4th 916,
929.) We shall therefore dismiss the appeal.3

2 We grant defendant’s request, in which the Attorney General joins, to take judicial
notice of our files in the appeal from the trial court’s ruling on the first petition, which
was decided while the appeal in this case was pending. (See People v. Winner (June 14,
2016, C079939) [nonpub. opn.].)
3   Given our decision to dismiss the appeal, we do not address defendant’s claims.

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                                  DISPOSITION
       The appeal is dismissed.

                                                 /s/
                                           Duarte, J.

We concur:

      /s/
Butz, Acting P. J.

     /s/
Murray, J.

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