Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-05-19 20:03:36.891271+00
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Filed 5/19/23 P. v. Trujillo 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,                                      E080163

 v.                                                                      (Super.Ct.No. FWV08784)

 EDWARD R. TRUJILLO,                                                     OPINION

          Defendant and Appellant.

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

McCann, Judge. Dismissed.

         John Derrick, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and

Appellant.

         No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent.

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       On March 21, 1996, a jury convicted defendant and appellant, Edward R. Trujillo,

of attempted, premeditated murder (Pen. Code, §§ 664 and 187, subd. (a), count 1);1 false

imprisonment (§ 236 count 2); and conspiracy to commit murder (§§ 182, subd. (a)(1) &

187, subd. (a), count 3). The jury additionally found true allegations as to all three counts

that defendant personally used a firearm (§ 12022.5, subd. (a)(1)) and personally inflicted

great bodily injury (§ 12022.7, subd. (a)). The court sentenced defendant to an

indeterminate term of imprisonment of 32 years to life.2

       On September 20, 2019, defendant filed a form petition for resentencing pursuant

to former section 1170.95.3 At a hearing on October 28, 2022, at which defendant was

represented by counsel, the trial court denied the petition at the prima facie stage.

       On appeal, defendant’s appointed counsel has filed a brief pursuant to People v.

Wende (1979) 25 Cal.3d 436 (Wende) and People v. Delgadillo (2022) 14 Cal.5th 216

(Delgadillo),4 setting forth a statement of the case, requesting that we exercise our

discretion to independently review the record for error, and identifying one potentially

       1 All further statutory references are to the Penal Code unless otherwise indicated.
       2 We take judicial notice of our prior nonpublished opinion from defendant’s
appeal from the original judgment (People v. Lopez (May 7, 1998, E018507) [nonpub.
opn.]), which the People attached to their response to defendant’s petition and which they
requested the court below take judicial notice.

       3
       Effective June 30, 2022, Assembly Bill No. 200 (2021-2022 Reg. Sess.)
amended and renumbered section 1170.95 as section 1172.6. (Stats. 2022, ch. 58, § 10.)

       4 In Delgadillo, the California Supreme Court held that Wende procedures do not
apply in appeals from the denial of a section 1172.6 postjudgment petition. (Delgadillo,
supra, 14 Cal.5th at pp. 224-226.)

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arguable issue: whether the court’s instruction of the jury with CALJIC 3.02 on the

natural and probable consequences doctrine as applied to the false imprisonment charge

could also have been utilized by the jury to convict defendant of attempted murder.

       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.)

       NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN OFFICIAL REPORTS

                                                                McKINSTER
                                                                                              J.
We concur:

RAMIREZ
                        P. J.

RAPHAEL
                           J.

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