P. v. Camarillo

Filed 11/8/22 P. v. Camarillo CA1/5
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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION FIVE

THE PEOPLE,
Plaintiff and Respondent,
v.
JESUS CAMARILLO,
Defendant and Appellant.

A163883

(Solano County
Super. Ct. No. FCR331711)

MEMORANDUM OPINION
After a jury found Jesus Camarillo guilty of second degree murder(Pen. Code, §§187, subd. (a), 189, subd. (b); count1)and attempted murder(§§ 187, subd. (a), 664; count 2) withtrue findings onfirearm enhancementsto both counts (§12022.53, subds. (c),(d)), the Solano Superior Court sentenced him to 47 years to life in prison. (People v. Camarillo (Jan.20,2021, A155577 [nonpub.opn.] pp. 1, 6–7.)This division affirmed his convictions but remanded his case for resentencingunderPeople v. Morrison (2019) 34 Cal.App.5th 217“to consider whether to strike the section 12022.53, subdivision (d) enhancement and impose a lesser enhancement in connection with [his] second degree murder conviction.” (People v. Camarillo,at pp. 27, 28.)The courtdid just that when it resentenced him to 42 years to life, striking the section 12022.53, subdivision (d) enhancementto count 1andimposing thesubdivision (c) and subdivision (b) enhancements,staying the latter under section 654. Camarillo now appeals the resentencing order but for a different reason, arguing subsequent amendments to section 1170require resentencing on count 2. The People agree he is at least entitled to a new sentencing hearing on count 2, and so do we, though we reject hisrelated section 654 argument as to the stayed enhancement to count 1. We independently review these statutes’ interpretation and application. (Peoplev. Childs (2013) 220 Cal.App.4th 1079, 1101.)
In 2021 the Legislature amended the determinate sentencing lawto mandate the lower term of imprisonment if any of three circumstances “was a contributing factor in the commission of the offense,”including if the offender “was a youth as defined under subdivision (b) of Section 1016.7 at the time . . . .” (§ 1170, subd. (b)(6), (b)(6)(B), amended by Stats. 2021, ch. 731, § 1.3,No. 5E Deering’s Adv. Legis. Service, p. 609, eff. Jan.1,2022.)“A ‘youth’ [is] any person under 26 years of age on the date the offense was committed.” (§ 1016.7, subd. (b), added by Stats. 2021, ch. 695, § 4, No. 5E Deering’s Adv. Legis. Service, p. 299, eff. Jan.1,2022.) Camarillo was 16 at the time. (People v. Camarillo, supra, A155577, at p. 2.) We agree with the parties that these amendments apply retroactively to him and that he is entitled to a hearing on whether to resentence him to the lower term on count 2. (People v. Flores (2022) 73 Cal.App.5th 1032, 1039.)
Camarillo also argues he is entitled to resentencing on the firearm enhancements to count 1 under the 2021 amendment to section 654.(Stats. 2021, ch. 441, § 1, No. 5C Deering’s Adv. Legis. Service, p. 23, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.) The People correctly respond, “The sentence on a lesser enhancement that was alleged and found true is stayed not by section 654 but by section 12022.53 itself.” “[T]he sentence enhancement provisions of Penal Code section 12022.53 are not limited by the multiple punishment prohibition of Penal Code section 654,” and“in enacting section 12022.53, the Legislature made clear that it intended to create a sentencing scheme unfettered by section 654.” (People v. Palacios (2007) 41 Cal.4th 720, 723, 727–728.)Section 12022.53, subdivisions (b)–(d) mandate that their enhancements be applied “[n]otwithstanding any other law . . . .” “The only limitation to this rule is found in subdivision (f) . . . .” (People v. Palacios, at pp. 725–726 & fn.4, 731–733.)“Here, the broad and unambiguous scope of ‘[n]otwithstanding any other . . . law’ overrides the application, if any, of section 654 to the imposition of punishment prescribed in section 12022.53, subdivisions (b), (c) and (d).” (People v. Palacios, at p. 729; see People v. Hutchins (2001) 90 Cal.App.4th 1308, 1314 [“where imposition of a firearms use enhancement is made mandatory notwithstanding other sentencing laws and statutes, it is error to apply section 654 to stay imposition of such an enhancement” (italics omitted)]; Isaak v. Superior Court (2022) 73Cal.App.5th 792, 798–799 [the phrase notwithstanding any other provision of lawis “ ‘a “ ‘term of art’ ” ’ ” with “ ‘special interpretative importance’ ”].)
“[A]fter a trial court imposes punishment for the section 12022.53 firearm enhancement with the longest term of imprisonment, the remaining section 12022.53 firearm enhancements . . . found true for the same crime must be imposed and then stayed” under section 12022.53, not section 654. (People v. Gonzalez (2008) 43 Cal.4th 1118, 1130.)To stay the section 12022.53, subdivision (b) enhancement under section 654 was error, though harmless, applying section 12022.53, subdivision (f).The court can correct theerror on remand under the full resentencing rule, which “allows a court to revisit all prior sentencing decisions when resentencing a defendant.” (Peoplev. Valenzuela (2019) 7 Cal.5th 415, 424–425; People v. Buycks (2018) 5 Cal.5th 857, 893–895.)
DISPOSITION
We reverse the Solano Superior Court’s order of September 14, 2021, and remand for resentencing on Camarillo’s attempted murder conviction under amended Penal Code section 1170, subdivision (b), and to stay the Penal Code section 12022.53, subdivision (b) enhancement to Camarillo’s second degree murder conviction under section 12022.53, subdivision (f).

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Jackson, P. J.

WE CONCUR:

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Simons, J.

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Wiseman, J.*

A163883/People v. Jesus Camarillo