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Date Created: 2023-09-27 18:03:42.983066+00
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Filed 9/27/23 P. v. Minshew CA3
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                IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
                                      THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT
                                                         (Sutter)
                                                            ----

 THE PEOPLE,                                                                                   C096907

                    Plaintiff and Respondent,                                    (Super. Ct. No. CRF-20-000-
                                                                                             3082)
           v.

 KENNETH ROY MINSHEW,

                    Defendant and Appellant.

         Appointed counsel for defendant Kenneth Roy Minshew filed an opening brief
that sets forth the facts of the case and asks this court to review the record and determine
whether there are any arguable issues on appeal. (People v. Wende (1979) 25 Cal.3d
436.) Finding no arguable errors that would result in a disposition more favorable to
defendant, we will affirm the judgment.

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                                    BACKGROUND
       We provide the following brief description of the facts and procedural history of
the case. (See People v. Kelly (2006) 40 Cal.4th 106, 110, 123-124.)
       On the afternoon of December 26, 2020, William S. and L.S., husband and wife,
drove to visit a friend in Yuba City. The friend was not home so they got back in the car
and left with William driving. William was about to make a right turn when defendant
pulled up in front of their car in a pickup truck. Both vehicles stopped. The men
exchanged words.
       Defendant got out of his truck and went to the passenger side of William and
L.S.’s car and began cursing at them. They both shouted back through the window.
Defendant said, “Do you want to fight?” William got out of the car and defendant started
punching him. L.S. got out of the car to intervene and defendant punched her. A
passerby called the police.
       Defendant testified at trial that William had a semiautomatic handgun. Defendant
said he heard William say, “you’re going to pay,” and thought he was going to pay with
his life. Defendant took a knife from the console of his truck to defend himself. During
the fight, defendant stabbed William nine times to the head, back, chest, and under both
arms, requiring 85 staples to close the wounds.
       William told L.S. to run because defendant was trying to kill them. She drove off
and parked the car a short distance away. She did not see William again until she picked
him up from the hospital.
       While defendant conceded at trial that William was not armed when defendant
stabbed him, defendant said that L.S. told William to get the gun and he was moving to
do so. Defendant said he stabbed William to keep him from getting the gun. Police
officers did not find a gun, holster, or ammunition in William and L.S.’s car. Defendant
never told the officer who interviewed him at the scene that he saw a gun, that the gun

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was a semiautomatic, or that William pointed a gun at defendant. Defendant said only
that he thought William had a gun because he acted like he had a gun.
       William and L.S. testified that William did not have a gun and did not own a gun.
William explained that he could not own a gun because he had a felony conviction.
       Defendant was charged with attempted murder of William (Pen. Code, §§ 664,
187, subd. (a); count 1),1 assault with a deadly weapon on William (§ 245, subd. (a)(1);
count 2), and battery of L.S. (§ 242; count 3). The information alleged that in connection
with the attempted murder defendant caused great bodily injury (§ 12022.7, subd. (a))
and personally used a deadly weapon (§ 12022, subd. (b)(1)) and that in connection with
the assault with a deadly weapon defendant inflicted great bodily injury (§ 12022.7, subd.
(a)). In July 2022, a jury found defendant not guilty of attempted murder or the lesser
included offense of attempted voluntary manslaughter, but guilty of assault with a deadly
weapon. The jury found true that defendant inflicted great bodily injury on William. The
jury found defendant not guilty of battery of L.S. The trial court sentenced defendant to
three years of formal probation and 120 days in county jail and imposed fines and fees.
Defendant timely appealed. Defendant’s counsel filed a Wende brief on July 5, 2023, and
the case was assigned to this panel shortly thereafter.
                                       DISCUSSION
       Appointed counsel filed an opening brief setting forth the facts of the case and
asking this court to review the record and determine whether there are any arguable
issues on appeal. (People v. Wende, supra, 25 Cal.3d 436.) Defendant was advised by
counsel of the right to file a supplemental brief within 30 days of the date of filing of the
opening brief. More than 30 days have elapsed, and we received no communication from
defendant.

1 Undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code.

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       Having undertaken an examination of the entire record, we find no arguable error
that would result in a disposition more favorable to defendant.
                                     DISPOSITION
       The judgment is affirmed.

                                                     /s/
                                                 BOULWARE EURIE, J.

We concur:

    /s/
ROBIE, Acting P. J.

    /s/
KRAUSE, J.

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