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Date Created: 2022-08-12 18:02:22.68157+00
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Filed 8/12/22 P. v. Kelley CA3
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              IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
                                      THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT
                                                         (Yuba)
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THE PEOPLE,                                                                                   C095672

                   Plaintiff and Respondent,                                   (Super. Ct. No. CRF2101367)

         v.

GREGORY DEAN KELLEY,

                   Defendant and Appellant.

         Appointed counsel for defendant, Gregory Dean Kelley, has asked 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 error that would result in a
disposition more favorable to defendant, we affirm the trial court’s order.

                             FACTS AND HISTORY                OF THE     PROCEEDINGS
         The People’s complaint charged defendant with driving or taking a vehicle
without the consent of the owner (Veh. Code, § 10851, subd. (a)) with an allegation he
had suffered a prior strike (Pen. Code, §§ 667, subd. (b)-(i), 1170.12, subd. (b).)
(Statutory section citations that follow are found in the Penal Code.) The parties resolved
the case with defendant pleading guilty and admitting the prior strike. In exchange,

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defendant would receive a stipulated sentence to the lower term of 16 months doubled to
32 months because of the prior strike. The stipulated factual basis for the plea was that
defendant took his friend’s Ford Expedition with a value over $1,000 without permission.
The Expedition was reported stolen, but was not recovered until after it was involved in
an accident approximately a week later.
       On October 18, 2021, the trial court sentenced defendant in accordance with the
plea agreement and awarded defendant 83 actual days plus 82 conduct days for a total of
165 days custody credits. The court also imposed a $300 restitution fine (§ 1202.4), a
$300 suspended parole revocation restitution fine (§ 1202.45), a $40 court operations
assessment fee (§ 1465.8), a $30 conviction assessment fee (Gov. Code, § 70373), and a
$4 emergency medical air transportation fee (Gov. Code, § 76000.10(c)(1)). Finally, the
court reserved jurisdiction to award victim restitution and set the matter for a contested
restitution hearing. (§ 1202.4, subd. (f).) The court denied defendant’s ex parte request
to modify the sentence to waive these fines and fees on January 20, 2022.
       At the contested restitution hearing on January 27, 2022, defendant failed to offer
any evidence contradicting the victim’s $3,500 request for the loss of the Ford
Expedition. Finding the victim’s opinion valuing the Expedition legally sufficient, the
court awarded the $3,500 and reserved jurisdiction to award the additional $500
requested upon an explanation of the losses from inside the Expedition justifying the
award. The same day, defendant filed a notice appealing the January 27, 2022 restitution
order. The record does not reflect a separate notice of appeal from the underlying
October 18, 2021 judgment.

                                        DISCUSSION
       We appointed counsel to represent defendant on appeal. Counsel filed an opening
brief that sets forth the facts and procedural history of the case and requests this court to
review the record and determine whether there are any arguable issues on appeal.

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(People v. Wende, supra, 25 Cal.3d 436.) Defendant was advised by counsel of the right
to file a supplemental brief within 30 days from the date the opening brief was filed.
More than 30 days have elapsed, and defendant has not filed a supplemental brief.
       We have located no published authority that speaks to the applicability of Wende
procedures to an appeal from a trial court’s original order setting victim restitution where
the court reserved jurisdiction at the original sentencing hearing (§§ 1202.4, subd. (f),
1202.46) and defendant has not appealed the underlying judgment of conviction.
However, because defendant’s contested restitution hearing was part of his original
criminal prosecution and a continuation of sentencing (People v. Dehle (2008)
166 Cal.App.4th 1380, 1386), we have reviewed the record in accordance with Wende.
Having done so, we find no arguable issue that could result in a disposition more
favorable to defendant. Accordingly, we will affirm the trial court’s restitution order.

                                       DISPOSITION
The trial court’s order is affirmed.

                                                  HULL, Acting P. J.

We concur:

RENNER, J.

EARL, J.

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