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Filed 3/8/24 P. v. Geebroomfield 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,                                      E082641

 v.                                                                      (Super.Ct.No. BAF1701131)

 DARRION GEEBROOMFIELD,                                                  OPINION

          Defendant and Appellant.

         APPEAL from the Superior Court of Riverside County. Francisco Navarro, Judge

Affirmed.

         Darrion Geebroomfield, in pro. per.; Arielle Bases, under appointment by the

Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

         No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent.

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       Defendant and appellant Darrion Geebroomfield appeals from the trial court’s

order denying his petition for resentencing pursuant to Penal Code1 former section

1171.1 (now renumbered section 1172.75). For the reasons set forth post, we affirm the

trial court’s order.

                             STATEMENT OF THE CASE

       On November 2, 2017, an information charged defendant with corporal injury on a

spouse or cohabitant under section 273.5, subdivision (f)(1) (count 1); assault likely to

produce great bodily injury under section 245, subdivision (a)(4) (count 2); willfully and

unlawfully use of force inflicting serious bodily injury under section 245, subdivision (d)

(count 3); and violating a protective order under section 166, subdivision (c)(4) (count 4).

As to counts 1 and 2, the information also alleged that defendant personally inflicted

great bodily injury under sections 12022.7, subdivision (e), and 1192.7, subdivision

(c)(8). Moreover, as to count 3, the information alleged that defendant personally

inflicted great bodily injury under section 1192.7, subdivision (c)(8).

       On April 12, 2018, defendant pled guilty to corporal injury on a spouse or

cohabitant (count 1), and admitted the section 12022.7 enhancement. The trial court

dismissed the remaining counts and enhancements. Thereafter, the court sentenced

defendant to 60 months of formal probation.

       One year later, on April 5, 2019, the court found defendant in violation of

probation. Thereafter, the court sentenced defendant to four years for count 1 plus four

       1 All further statutory references are to the Penal Code unless otherwise indicated.

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years for the section 12022.7 enhancement, to be served concurrently, for a total of eights

years.

         On September 25, 2023, defendant filed a petition to recall of sentence and

resentencing under section 1172.75.

         On September 27, 2023, the trial court denied defendant’s petition because

defendant was ineligible for relief.

         On November 13, 2023, defendant filed a timely notice of appeal.

                                        DISCUSSION

         Counsel has filed a brief under the authorities of People v. Wende (1979) 25

Cal.3d 436, Anders v. California (1967) 386 U.S. 739, and People v. Delgadillo (2022)

14 Cal.5th 216 (Delgadillo). In the brief, pursuant to Anders, appellate counsel has

identified the following issue to assist the court in its search of the record for error:

“Whether appellant is eligible for recall of his sentence and resentencing pursuant to

section [1172.75].”

         On January 23, 2024, we sent notice to defendant regarding the filing of a

Delgadillo brief, as follows: “Counsel for appellant has filed a brief stating no arguable

issues can be found. Because this is an appeal from the denial of a post-conviction

proceeding, this court is not required to conduct an independent review of the record but

may do so in its discretion. (People v. Delgadillo (2022) 14 Ca1.5th 216 []; People v.

Serrano (2012) 211 Ca1.App.4th 496.) The appellant is personally granted 30 days to

file any supplemental brief deemed necessary. If appellant files a supplemental brief, this

court will evaluate the specific arguments presented in that brief in its opinion.

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(Delgadillo, supra, 14 Ca1.5th 216[.]) Failure to timely file a supplemental brief may

result in the dismissal of the appeal as abandoned.”

       On February 14, 2024, defendant filed a three-page handwritten supplemental

brief with attachments. In the brief, defendant asks this court to consider the following:

(1) his age of 23 years and being under the influence of drugs and alcohol when he

committed the underlying offense; (2) his mental health issues during the time he

committed the underlying offense; (3) his “age at the time of the crime as a mitigating

factor[;]” (4) the psychological trauma caused by his mental illness “that contributed to

the offenses[;]” (5) his age of 23 years being “a contributing factor in the commission of

the offense that would require imposition of the lower term pursuant to Penal Code

section 1170, subdivision (b)(6)[;]” and (6) his past of being “physically abused as a child

and during the time of my offenses, [he] was experiencing flashbacks of [his] stressful

past. [He] was jumped/beaten by two men at the age of 15. [His] prior trauma played a

role in the commission of the offenses.” Notwithstanding defendant’s request to consider

his mitigation circumstances, we find no merit to his arguments.

       Here, the appeal stems from the trial court’s denial of defendant’s petition for

resentencing under section 1172.75. This section states that “[a]ny sentence

enhancement that was imposed prior to January 1, 2020, pursuant to subdivision (b) of

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[s]ection 667.5, except for any enhancement imposed for a prior conviction for a sexually

violent offense . . . is legally invalid.”2 (§ 1172.75, subd. (a).)

       In this case, the trial court imposed an enhancement under section 12022.7,

subdivision (e), not section 667.5. Hence, defendant’s sentence does not include any

enhancements imposed under section 667.5, subdivision (b). Moreover, nothing in

section 1172.75 allows a trial court to go back and consider defendant’s mitigating

circumstances to resentence defendant, as argued by defendant in his personal brief.

       Based on the above and our independent review of the record, we find that the trial

court correctly determined defendant is ineligible for relief under section 1172.75.

(Delgadillo, supra, 12 Cal.5th at p. 233.)

                                       DISPOSITION

       The trial court’s order denying defendant’s section 1172.75 petition for

resentencing is affirmed.

       NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN OFFICIAL REPORTS

                                                           MILLER
                                                                                              J.

We concur:

       2 Prior to January 1, 2020, section 667.5, subdivision (b)b required trial courts to
impose a one-year sentence enhancement for each true finding on an allegation that a
defendant had served a separate prior prison term and had not remained free of custody
for at least five years. (§ 667.5, former subd. (b).) Effective January 1, 2020, however,
the statute was amended to limit its prior prison term enhancement to only prior prison
terms for sexually violent offenses as defined in Welfare and institutions Code section
6600. (See People v. Jennings (2019) 42 Cal.App.5th 664, 681.)

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McKINSTER
            Acting P. J.

RAPHAEL
                      J.

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