Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-11-22 20:01:59.688343+00
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Filed 11/22/23 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,                                      E081881

 v.                                                                      (Super.Ct.No. FVI1500732)

 DANIEL TRUJILLO,                                                        OPINION

          Defendant and Appellant.

         APPEAL from the Superior Court of San Bernardino County. Miriam I. Morton,

Judge. Dismissed.

         Gerald J. Miller, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and

Appellant.

         No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent.

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       On June 29, 2016, a jury convicted defendant and appellant Daniel Trujillo of two

counts of attempted deliberate premeditated murder (Pen. Code, §§ 664, 187, counts 1 &

2).1 The court sentenced defendant to a term of imprisonment of 14 years to life.

(Trujillo, supra, E066780.)

       On January 10, 2022, defendant filed a form petition for resentencing pursuant to

former section 1170.95.2 At a prima facie hearing on August 4, 2023, the trial court

denied the petition based on the jury instructions, which the People had attached to their

motion to deny the petition.

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

Delgadillo (2022) 14 Cal.5th 216 (Delgadillo), setting forth a statement of the case,

requesting that we must independently review the record for error, and identifying four

potentially arguable issues: (1) whether the court erred in determining that defendant was

not convicted under a theory of imputed malice; (2) whether the trial court’s instruction

of the jury regarding conspiracy indicated that defendant was convicted based on a theory

of natural and probable consequences; (3) whether defendant was eligible for

resentencing where the court instructed the jury with theories of direct aiding and

       1 All further statutory references will be to the Penal Code.

       We take judicial notice of our prior opinion from defendant’s appeal from the
original judgment. (People v. Trujillo. (Feb. 26, 2018, E066780) [nonpub. opn.].) In
their motion to deny defendant’s petition, the People requested the court below take
judicial notice of Trujillo.

       2 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.)

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abetting, conspiracy to commit murder, and conspiracy to commit attempted murder; and

4) whether counsel below rendered prejudicial ineffective assistance of counsel.

       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.)

                                     DISPOSITION

       The appeal is dismissed.

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                                                                McKINSTER
                                                                                              J.

We concur:

RAMIREZ
                        P. J.

CODRINGTON
                           J.

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