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Filed 6/15/16 P. v. Andrade CA5

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           IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
                                     FIFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

THE PEOPLE,
                                                                                           F070797
         Plaintiff and Respondent,
                                                                             (Super. Ct. No. SCR004344)
                   v.

TODD ANTHONY ANDRADE,                                                                    OPINION
         Defendant and Appellant.

                                                   THE COURT*
         APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Madera County. Charles A.
Wieland, Judge.
         Patricia L. Watkins, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and
Appellant.
         Office of the State Attorney General, Sacramento, California, for Plaintiff and
Respondent.
                                                        -ooOoo-

*        Before Levy, Acting P.J., Kane, J. and Detjen, J.
       Todd Anthony Andrade (defendant) filed a petition seeking resentencing pursuant
to the provisions of the Three Strikes Reform Act of 2012 (the Act). The trial court
denied the petition. We affirm the trial court’s order.
                     FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL SUMMARY
       Defendant filed a petition seeking resentencing pursuant to the provisions of Penal
Code section 1170.126.1 The trial court denied the petition concluding defendant was
ineligible for resentencing. Defendant appeals from the order denying his petition.
                                          DISCUSSION
       Section 1170.126, enacted as part of the Act, defines those eligible for
resentencing as inmates serving an indeterminate third strike sentence, but declares an
inmate ineligible for resentencing if he or she
       (1) is serving a sentence for a crime that is listed as a serious (§ 1192.7, subd. (c))
or violent felony (§ 667.5, subd. (c)),
       (2) is serving a sentence for a crime committed under the circumstances listed in
section 667, subdivision (e)(2)(C), clauses (i) through (iii), or section 1170.12,
subdivision (c)(2)(C), clauses (i) through (iii), or
       (3) has a prior conviction for an offense appearing in section 667,
subdivision (e)(2)(C), clause (iv), or section 1170.12, subdivision (c)(2)(C), clause (iv).
(§ 1170.126, subd. (e).)
       If an inmate is eligible under the statute, then he must be resentenced “unless the
court, in its discretion, determines that resentencing the petitioner would pose an
unreasonable risk of danger to public safety.” (§ 1170.126, subd. (f).)
       The trial court’s analysis ended in the first step of its inquiry when it concluded
defendant was ineligible for resentencing. Although the record does not contain any
documents reviewed by the trial court, in denying the petition the trial court indicated it

1      All statutory references are to the Penal Code.

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recalled presiding over the trial, had read the record, and had reviewed the nonpublished
appellate court opinion from defendant’s appeal from the conviction.
       We have reviewed our opinion from defendant’s appeal from the underlying
conviction. (People v. Andrade (Jan. 31, 2007, F048471) [nonpub. opn.].) This opinion
confirms defendant was convicted of several crimes, including assault on a peace officer
with a deadly weapon in violation of section 245, subdivision (c). As the result of one of
defendant’s arguments on appeal, we quoted in the opinion the verdict on this count:
“ ‘We, the jury in the above entitled matter, find the defendant, TODD ANTHONY
ANDRADE, guilty of willfully and unlawfully committing an assault upon Christian
Swanson, a peace officer engaged in his course of duties, with a deadly weapon, to wit, a
Ford Mustang, by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury, a felony violation
of section 245(c) of the Penal Code of the State of California as charged in Count Four of
the Information on file herein.’ ” (People v. Andrade, supra, F048471, boldface & italics
omitted.)
       Assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer is a serious felony. (§ 1192.7,
subd. (c)(11).) Inmates who were convicted of committing a serious felony are ineligible
for resentencing. (§ 1170.126, subd. (e)(1).) Accordingly, as the trial court concluded,
defendant is ineligible for resentencing.
       Appellate counsel filed a brief pursuant to People v. Wende (1979) 25 Cal. 3d 436,
asserting she could not identify any arguable issues in the case. As our analysis shows,
appellate counsel was correct. By letter dated May 21, 2015, we invited defendant to
inform us of any issue he wished us to address.
       Defendant responded to our letter asking us to address three issues: (1) photos of
his vehicle showing preexisting damage to the vehicle used to assault Officer Swanson,
(2) the proposed testimony of Angela Coy, who was a passenger in defendant’s vehicle
when the events took place but who did not testify at trial, apparently because she could
not be located by either party, and (3) the record from the underlying conviction which

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establishes, according to defendant, that he did not use any force against Swanson when
Swanson was attempting to pull defendant from his motor vehicle after the assault
occurred.
       None of these arguments are relevant to the issue before us. Defendant was
convicted of assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer, a serious felony. That
judgment is final. As a result, he is ineligible for resentencing pursuant to the provisions
of section 1170.126, subdivision (e)(1). To the extent any of the issues identified in
defendant’s response were relevant to the underlying conviction, they should have been
addressed in the direct appeal from the judgment of that conviction.
                                      DISPOSITION
       The order denying defendant’s petition for resentencing is affirmed.

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