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Filed 3/2/15 P. v. Williams CA2/7
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              IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

                                     SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

                                                DIVISION SEVEN

THE PEOPLE,                                                          B257804

         Plaintiff and Respondent,                                   (Los Angeles County
                                                                     Super. Ct. No. BA237575)
         v.

CLIFFORD CEDRIC WILLIAMS,

         Defendant and Appellant.

         APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County,
Norm Shapiro, Judge. Affirmed.
         Richard B. Lennon, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and
Appellant.
         No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent.
                                           ______________________
       Clifford Cedric Williams was convicted in 2003 after a jury trial of furnishing a
controlled substance to a minor with special findings, following a bifurcated court trial,
that he had suffered four prior serious felony convictions within the meaning of the three
strikes law. The trial court sentenced Williams to an aggregate indeterminate state prison
term of 35 years to life. We affirmed the judgment in 2004. (People v. Williams
(Feb. 19, 2004, B168799) [nonpub. opn].)
       On July 8, 2014 the trial court denied with prejudice Williams’s petition for recall
of sentence pursuant to Penal Code section 1170.126 on the ground Williams is ineligible
for resentencing. (Pen. Code, § 1170.126, subd. (f).) Williams appealed.
       We appointed counsel to represent Williams on appeal. After examination of the
record, counsel filed an opening brief in which no issues were raised. On December 1,
2014 we advised Williams he had 30 days within which to personally submit any
contentions or issues he wished us to consider. On December 5, 2014 we received a
seven page hand-printed response in which Williams asserted, with no analysis, his
constitutional rights to equal protection and due process were violated by retroactive
application of changes in the state’s indeterminate sentencing scheme.1 Williams does
not dispute his 1985 conviction for rape (Pen. Code, § 261, subd. (a)), alleged and proved
in this case, made him statutorily ineligible for resentencing. (See Pen. Code,
§§ 1170.126, subd. (e)(2), 667, subd. (e)(2)(C)(iv), 1170.12, subd. (c)(2)(C)(iv); Welf. &
Inst. Code, § 6600, subd. (b).)
       We have examined the record and are satisfied Williams’s appellate attorney has
fully complied with the responsibilities of counsel and no arguable issue exists. (Smith v.
Robbins (2000) 528 U.S. 259, 277-284 [120 S. Ct. 746, 145 L. Ed. 2d 756]; People v. Kelly
(2006) 40 Cal. 4th 106, 112-113; People v. Wende (1979) 25 Cal. 3d 436, 441.)

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       Williams also asserted there was insufficient evidence, independent of his out-of-
court statements, to establish the corpus delicti of the offense, the same claim we resolved
against him in his prior appeal.

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                                    DISPOSITION
      The order denying the petition for recall of sentence is affirmed.

                                                       PERLUSS, P. J.

      We concur:

             ZELON, J.

             FEUER, J.*

*
        Judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court, assigned by the Chief Justice pursuant to
article VI, section 6 of the California Constitution.

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