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Filed 7/24/15 P. v. Phillips 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,                                       E061757

v.                                                                       (Super.Ct.No. RIF145538)

EMMANUEL PHILLIPS,                                                       OPINION

         Defendant and Appellant.

         APPEAL from the Superior Court of Riverside County. Bernard Schwartz, Judge.

Affirmed.

         David McNeil Morse, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant

and Appellant.

         No appearance by Plaintiff and Respondent.

         This is defendant and appellant Emmanuel Phillips’ second appeal following a

remand for resentencing. In his first appeal, case No. E055866, this court reversed

defendant’s attempted murder convictions (counts 3, 4, & 5) and the associated

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enhancements, and directed the trial court to “prepare amended abstracts of judgment

reflecting defendant’s determinate sentence is seven years, and his indeterminate

sentence is 50 years to life.” (People v. Phillips (Oct. 10, 2013, E055866) [nonpub. opn.]

(Phillips I).) On remand, defendant was sentenced in accordance with this court’s

opinion. Defendant again appeals, challenging the sentence on remittitur. We find no

error and affirm the judgment.

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                             PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND1

       A jury found defendant guilty of one count of willful, deliberate, premeditated

murder (Pen. Code,2 § 187, subd. (a); count 2), three counts of attempted willful,

deliberate, premeditated murder (§§ 664, 187, subd. (a); counts 3, 4 & 5), and one count

of assault with a deadly weapon (§ 245, subd. (a)(1); count 1). The jury found true that

(1) during the murder and one of the attempted murders, defendant discharged a firearm

causing death or great bodily injury to another person (§ 12022.53, subd. (d)); (2) during

the two other attempted murders, defendant discharged a firearm (§ 12022.53, subd. (c));

and (3) during the assault, defendant inflicted great bodily injury (§ 12022.7, subd. (a))

and personally used a deadly and dangerous weapon (§ 12022, subd. (b)(1)). The trial

       1  The substantive facts underlying the offenses are irrelevant to the issue on
appeal and are therefore not recounted here. The facts underlying the offenses are recited
in this court’s opinion in defendant’s prior appeal, case No. E055866. (See Phillips I,
supra.)

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

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court sentenced defendant to state prison for a determinate term of 47 years, and an

indeterminate term of 75 years to life, plus three consecutive life terms.

       Defendant subsequently appealed, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence

supporting the three attempted murder convictions, and alleging ineffective assistance of

counsel. On appeal, this court reversed defendant’s three attempted murder convictions

(counts 3, 4, 5) and the associated enhancement allegations, and directed the trial court to

“prepare amended abstracts of judgment reflecting defendant’s determinate sentence is

seven years, and his indeterminate sentence is 50 years to life” and to “forward the

amended abstracts of judgment to the appropriate agencies.” (Phillips I, supra.)

       On June 27, 2014, on return of the remittitur from this court, the trial court

dismissed the three attempted murder counts and the associated enhancements, and

resentenced defendant as follows: a determinate term of three years on count 1 for

assault with a deadly weapon (§ 245, subd. (a)(1)), plus an additional three years for the

great bodily injury (§ 12022.7) enhancement and an additional term of one year for the

weapon use (§ 12022, subd. (b)(1)) enhancement; and an indeterminate term of 25 years

to life on count 2 for first degree murder (§ 187, subd. (a)), plus an indeterminate term of

25 years to life for the firearm use (§ 12022.53, subd. (d)) enhancement. The total

determinate term was seven years, and the total indeterminate term was 50 years to life.

       With regard to custody credits, because it did not have updated credit information

for defendant, the trial court referred the matter to the probation department for

calculation of credits. The trial court ordered the superior court clerk to prepare an

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amended abstract of judgment and send it to the Department of Corrections and

Rehabilitation.

       On July 2, 2014, an amended abstract of judgment was prepared reflecting

defendant’s determinate sentence only, and failed to indicate any credit for time served

with the notation “refer to probation department to calculate total credits for time served.”

       On August 18, 2014, a timely notice of appeal was filed.

       On December 23, 2014, the superior court issued two new abstracts of judgment.

One abstract of judgment indicated an indeterminate term of 50 years to life on count 2,

but misidentified the crime of conviction as assault with a deadly weapon instead of first

degree murder. The second abstract of judgment was identical to the one issued in July

2014, indicating a determinate term of seven years on count 1 with a notation that the

case was referred to the probation department to calculate total credit for time served.

       On February 12, 2015, appellate counsel sent letters to the trial court noting the

errors in the abstracts of judgment and requested the court to correct the errors.

Accordingly, on February 19, 2015, the superior court issued two new corrected abstracts

of judgment. The first indicated a determinate term of seven years for count 1 and the

enhancement, and also included total credits of 2,102 days (1,828 actual plus 274

conduct) for time served; the second indicated an indeterminate term of 50 years to life

for count 2 and the enhancement, and correctly identified the crime of conviction as first

degree murder.

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                                             II

                                      DISCUSSION

       After defendant appealed, upon his request, this court appointed counsel to

represent him. Counsel has filed a brief under the authority of People v. Wende (1979)

25 Cal.3d 436 and Anders v. California (1967) 386 U.S. 738, setting forth a statement of

the case, a summary of the facts and potential arguable issues, and requesting this court

conduct an independent review of the record.

       We offered defendant an opportunity to file a personal supplemental brief, but he

has not done so.

       Pursuant to the mandate of People v. Kelly (2006) 40 Cal.4th 106, we have

independently reviewed the entire record for potential error and find no arguable error

that would result in a disposition more favorable to defendant.

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                                      DISPOSITION

       The judgment is affirmed.

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                                                                  McKINSTER
                                                                                            J.
We concur:

RAMIREZ
                       P. J.

MILLER
                          J.

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