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Filed 5/3/13 P. v. Ross CA4/3

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              IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

                                     FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

                                                DIVISION THREE

THE PEOPLE,

     Plaintiff and Respondent,                                         G047796

                   v.                                                  (Super. Ct. No. RIF127592)

WILLIE ROYDELL ROSS, SR.,                                              OPINION

     Defendant and Appellant.

                   Appeal from postjudgment order of the Superior Court of Riverside
County, Michele D. Levine, Judge. Affirmed.
                   Jean Ballantine, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant
and Appellant.
                   No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent.
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              Defendant Willie Roydell Ross, Sr., was convicted of feloniously beating
the victim on December 12, 2005, violating Penal Code section 245, subdivision (a)(1).
(All statutory references are to the Penal Code.) The court sentenced him to five years in
state prison on June 18, 2009. We affirmed his conviction in a nonpublished opinion.
(People v. Ross et al. (Apr. 14, 2011, G042846).)
              On November 1, 2012, defendant’s partially handwritten ex parte motion
for an order correcting presentence credits was filed in the superior court. In it, defendant
states: “The Court awarded 28 days actual time credit and 13 days conduct credit for a
total of 39 days of pre-sentence credit in this case.” He requested the superior court to
“amend the judgment and direct preparation of an amended abstract of judgment
reflecting 26 days actual time credit and 26 days conduct credit for a total of 52 days of
pre-sentence credit in this case.” We note defendant’s conduct credits was not an issue in
his appeal.
              Upon receipt of defendant’s motion, the superior court conducted a hearing
on November 8, 2012. A deputy district attorney represented the People and counsel
from the conflicts panel represented defendant. The court denied his postjudgment
motion.
              We appointed counsel to represent defendant on appeal. Counsel filed a
brief which set forth the facts of the case. Counsel did not argue against the client, but
advised the court no issues were found to argue on defendant’s behalf. Defendant was
given 30 days to file written argument on his own behalf. That period has passed, and we
have received no communication from defendant.
              Since 1976, section 4019 has offered prisoners in local custody the
opportunity to earn credit against their sentences for good behavior. “For eight months
during 2010, a now superseded version of section 4019 that was enacted during a state
fiscal emergency temporarily increased the rate at which local prisoners could earn
conduct credits.” (People v. Brown (2012) 54 Cal.4th 314, 317-318, fn. omitted.) The

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California Supreme Court has held section 4019 is to be applied prospectively and that
equal protection does not require otherwise, stating: “[T]he important correctional
purposes of a statute authorizing incentives for good behavior [citation] are not served by
rewarding prisoners who served time before the incentives took effect and thus could not
have modified their behavior in response.” (People v. Brown, supra, 54 Cal.4th at pp.
328-329.)
               We conclude the trial court did not err in calculating defendant’s credits,
and after examining the record find no other arguable issue. (People v. Wende (1979) 25
Cal.3d 436.)
               The postjudgment order is affirmed.

                                                  MOORE, J.

WE CONCUR:

O’LEARY, P. J.

BEDSWORTH, J.

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