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Filed 3/29/24 P. v. Young CA1/4

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          IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

                                      FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT

                                                  DIVISION FOUR

 THE PEOPLE,
         Plaintiff and Respondent,                                     A168187
                           v.                                          (Contra Costa County Super. Ct.
 CHARLES DAVIS YOUNG,                                                  No. 05001309251)
         Defendant and Appellant.

                                       MEMORANDUM OPINION1
         Charles Davis Young was convicted by jury of residential burglary
(Pen. Code, §§ 459, 460, subd. (a)),2 assault with a deadly weapon (a cane)
(§ 245, subd. (a)(1)), and false imprisonment (§ 237, subd. (a)), as well as an
enhancement for personal infliction of great bodily injury (§ 12022.7,
subd. (a)). The trial court found prior conviction allegations to be true and
sentenced Young to a prison term of 45 years to life. In an unpublished
opinion otherwise affirming the convictions, we agreed with Young that the
sentence on the assault conviction should have been stayed under section

         1 We resolve this case by memorandum opinion because it raises no

substantial issue of fact or law. (Cal. Stds. Jud. Admin., § 8.1.)
         2 Undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code.

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654, and remanded for resentencing. (People v. Young (Jan. 3, 2019,
A144481) [nonpub. opn.] (Young I).)
      In resentencing Young, the court imposed the upper term of six years
for the first degree residential burglary conviction, and doubled it to twelve
years based upon a prior strike (dated October 2, 2003 for § 192, subd. (a),
manslaughter). (People v. Young (Mar. 10, 2021, A159701) [nonpub. opn.]
(Young II).)3 The court imposed another three years, consecutive, for the
enhancement under section 12022.7, subdivision (a). (Young II, supra,
A159701.) The sentences for the assault and false imprisonment convictions
were stayed pursuant to section 654. (Young II, supra, A159701.) Two prior
convictions (for a robbery and another first degree burglary) brought five
years each, adding another ten years under section 667, subdivision (a)(1).
(Young II, supra, A159701.) At the resentencing proceeding, Young’s counsel
pointed out to the court that it now had discretion to strike those prior
convictions, but the court declined to do so, while acknowledging it could. In
an unpublished opinion, we affirmed the aggregate determinate sentence of
25 years imposed in the resentencing proceedings. (Ibid.)
      Young subsequently filed a petition for recall of his sentence and
resentencing under former section 1171 (since renumbered to section 1172.7
(Stats. 2022, ch. 58, § 11)) and former section 1171.1 (since renumbered to
section 1172.75 (Stats. 2022, ch. 58, § 12)). These statutes invalidate,
respectively, any sentencing enhancement imposed (1) under Health and
Safety Code section 11370.2 for having suffered a prior conviction for
specified drug offenses (section 1172.7), and (2) under section 667.5,

      3 Young’s appellate counsel requests that we take judicial notice of

Young I and Young II under Evidence Code sections 452 and 459. We hereby
grant these requests.

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subdivision (b), for having served a prior prison term (section 1172.75). The
People filed an opposition. The court held a hearing on the petition at which
Young was represented by counsel, and at the conclusion of the hearing
denied relief.
      Young now appeals. Young’s appointed counsel on appeal filed a brief
with this court pursuant to People v. Delgadillo (2022) 14 Cal.5th 216, stating
that upon a thorough review of the case record, counsel found no arguable
issues. Young filed a supplemental brief, which is difficult to follow, but
appears to reference (1) something about “Brady rights”, (2) “eleven enclosed
camera hearings” that were designed to “hide evidence” which would have
shown the testimony of a “paid informant” to be perjurious, (3) a defense to
Young’s burglary conviction based on his assertion that he lived in the house
that was burgled, (4) the “withhold[ing]” of “[v]ital information” that would
have shown a witness against him had once been in a mental hospital, and
(4) ineffective assistance of counsel for failure to raise any of these issues.
      We see no basis in the record to cast any doubt on the correctness of the
trial’s denial of resentencing relief here. No resentencing enhancement
invalidated by either section 1172.7 or section 1172.75 was imposed on Young
at either his original sentencing or the resentencing that we ordered on
remand following his first appeal. He is therefore ineligible for relief under
the statutes that purportedly authorized his request for resentencing relief.
Nor do any of issues raised in his supplemental brief bear on his eligibility for
such relief. To the extent Young wishes to challenge his convictions or
sentence on the grounds of ineffective assistance of counsel, that argument is
more appropriately brought, if at all, in a habeas petition.4

      4 To be clear, we express no opinion on whether a habeas petition by

Young would be either timely or successful.

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                             DISPOSITION
     The order denying Young’s resentencing petition under sections 1172.7
and 1172.75 is affirmed.

                                                STREETER, J.

WE CONCUR:

BROWN, P. J.
GOLDMAN, J.

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