People v. Jones

Filed 5/24/22

CERTIFIED FOR PARTIAL PUBLICATION*

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION FOUR

THE PEOPLE,
Plaintiff and Respondent, A160328
v. (Alameda County Super. Ct.
LEONARD CHARLES JONES, No. H56669)
Defendant and Appellant.

A jury convicted defendant Leonard Jones of attempted murder and
related charges and enhancements. The trial court sentenced him to 59 years
in prison. On appeal, Jones argues (1) a jury instruction on eyewitness
identification evidence rendered his trial fundamentally unfair in violation of
due process, (2) the court erred by denying his Pitchess1 motion to discover
information in police personnel files, and (3) the case should be remanded for
resentencing. The Attorney General agrees a remand for resentencing is
required in light of legislation that took effect after Jones’s sentencing
hearing. In the unpublished portion of this opinion, we reject Jones’s
challenges to his convictions. But as we explain in the published portion of

*Pursuant to California Rules of Court, rules 8.1105(b) and 8.1110, this
opinion is certified for publication with the exception of parts I.A.3., I.B.,
II.A., and II.B.
1 Pitchess v. Superior Court (1974) 11 Cal.3d 531.

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the opinion, we agree with the parties as to the impact of the new legislation.
We therefore will remand for resentencing.
I. BACKGROUND
The charges against Jones arose from a shooting that took place in the
parking lot of a San Leandro apartment complex on the evening of June 16,
2013. Jones’s defense at trial was that he was misidentified and was not the
shooter.
A. The Prosecution’s Case
1. Background: Events Prior to the Shooting
In 2013, 16-year-old P.T. lived in the complex with her aunt. Jones’s
sister, Lyndetta Jones, also lived in the complex, and Jones sometimes visited
the property.
P.T. testified she had two interactions with Jones at the apartment
complex prior to the date of the shooting. On the first occasion, Jones
approached P.T. in the parking lot and asked for her name. Because P.T. did
not know Jones and was not interested in him, she gave him a fake name,
“Nancy.”
On the second occasion, which was about a week before the shooting,
Jones tried to ask P.T. out. She told him to leave her alone and that she had
a boyfriend. Jones persisted, and he and P.T. began cursing at each other.
Jones then pulled out a gun, pointed it at P.T., and told her she should not
curse at him or she would see what happens.
2. The Shooting
On June 16, 2013, around 9:00 p.m., 22-year-old Gbessaykai Massaquoi
was with P.T. in his two-door Honda Civic hatchback at the San Leandro
Marina. Massaquoi was smoking marijuana. P.T. and Massaquoi were
friends.

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 Massaquoi then drove to Hayward and picked up three other friends,
22-year-old Najeem Mirzada, 21-year-old Sandip Prasad, and 18-year-old
Cedric Sallie. P.T. sat in the front passenger seat, and Massaquoi’s three
other friends sat in back.
Massaquoi drove the group back to San Leandro to drop P.T. off at her
home. He dropped her off at a liquor store near the apartment complex,
rather than at the complex. Massaquoi testified that he dropped P.T. off
there only because it was convenient and because P.T. told him to. P.T.
testified Massaquoi dropped her off there so that her aunt would not see her
hanging out with an adult man.
After P.T. got out of the car, Massaquoi saw a man walking quickly
behind her while holding a paper bag that appeared to contain a bottled
drink. Massaquoi described this male as a fit Black man, five feet nine
inches to five feet 10 inches tall, with short hair, and wearing a white shirt
and white pants. Cedric Sallie described the man as Black, six feet tall with
short hair, and no facial hair, and weighing 160 to 170 pounds. Sandip
Prasad, who had moved to the front seat when P.T. got out of the car,
described the African-American man following P.T. as 25 to 30 years old, six
feet tall and 160 pounds, with short curly hair, and wearing a white tank top
with dark jeans. Najeem Mirzada described the fit man following P.T. as
Black, about six feet to six feet two inches tall, with short hair and in his mid-
20’s, and wearing a white shirt and light-colored baggie jeans.
P.T. testified Jones was the man following her. Jones came up from
behind her and got close to her side, about a foot away, and tried talking to
her. However, given what had happened between them previously, P.T. was
nervous, scared, walking fast, and not paying attention to Jones’s words.
P.T. had testified at the preliminary hearing that Jones walked behind her.

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 Massaquoi never saw P.T. turn around and look at the man.
Massaquoi testified that the man started out about 14 feet behind P.T., and
eventually closed the gap to about six to seven feet.
Because Massaquoi believed the man was following P.T., he made a
U-turn and drove into the apartment complex parking lot, stopping next to
P.T. and asking her if she was okay. Massaquoi testified that P.T. looked
scared and did not reply as she kept walking. P.T. testified that she replied
“ ‘yes’ ” to Massaquoi’s request that she call him after she got to her
apartment.
After P.T. walked out of view, the man who had been following her
pulled out a black gun, approached the Honda, and asked if they had a
problem. Massaquoi’s window was halfway down, and he responded he was
“ ‘just trying to make sure if she’s okay.’ ” The man replied, “ ‘Oh, yeah I
know Nancy,’ ” and told them to “bounce” or leave, in an angry tone.
Massaquoi put the car in reverse and heard five to six gunshots. A bullet
shattered the car window, and Massaquoi was hit in the ankle and forearm.
Massaquoi was able to drive to a gas station, where he and Prasad switched
seats. Prasad then drove to a hospital.
A resident of the complex, Olayo Maradiaga, arrived home and was
outside his apartment when he saw a Black man arguing with people in a
car. The man fired three or four shots at the car and ran away. Maradiaga
told officers he would not be able to identify the shooter because he had been
very far away (about 60 meters) and it was already nighttime.
Heather Tackett, the property manager for the apartment complex and
a resident there, was in her apartment on the evening of June 16, 2013, and
heard gunshots outside. She called 911 and looked out through the blinds on
her living room window. She saw someone running through the parking lot.

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Tackett recognized the man as the brother of resident Lyndetta Jones
(although she did not know his name). Tackett had interacted with him on
about five occasions. Tackett told the 911 operator that she saw a man who
“ ‘looked like’ ” the brother of one of her residents.
3. The Lineups and Witness Identifications
Sergeant Robert Young of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department
conducted a photo lineup on June 17, 2013, the day after the shooting. In the
lineup, which another officer had prepared, Jones was the number five photo
in the set of six photos. P.T. identified number five, Jones, as the man who
had followed her the previous evening. She did not see that person shoot a
gun.
The four men who were in Massaquoi’s car at the time of the shooting—
Massaquoi, Sallie, Prasad, and Mirzada—were shown the same photo lineup
on June 17, 2013, the day after the shooting. They did not identify any of the
men in the photo lineup as the shooter. When Sergeant Young asked which
of the people in the lineup looked “ ‘the closest’ ” to the person who shot into
the car, Massaquoi chose photo numbers three and six.
Sergeant Young later received a more recent booking photo of Jones
and thought he looked “completely different” from the photo used in the
June 17 lineup. He used this photo to create a second lineup, this time
placing Jones’s photo in position number one. Jones was the only person who
appeared in both the first and second photo lineups.
On July 28, 2013, Sergeant Young met the occupants of the Honda at a
Starbucks coffee house to show them the second photo lineup. Massaquoi
selected photo number one (Jones). In August 2014, Massaquoi told a deputy
district attorney that he chose photo number one on July 28, 2013, because it
“looked the most like” the shooter. Massaquoi also told the deputy district

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attorney he was “not very confident” in his selection. At the preliminary
hearing in September 2014, Massaquoi did not identify Jones as the shooter.
At trial, however, Massaquoi identified Jones as the shooter. He also
testified he was very confident in his July 28, 2013 selection of Jones’s photo
as the photo of the man who shot him. He stated he had been unable to
identify Jones at the preliminary hearing because of differences in Jones’s
facial hair.
As for the other men in the car, Sandip Prasad made a “partial
identification” at the second photo lineup, stating, “ ‘The person that shot my
friend looked like number 1 [the photo of Jones], but with darker facial hair
on the night of the shooting.’ ” Prasad did not identify Jones in court. At the
Starbucks photo lineup, Cedric Sallie was unable to identify anyone other
than to say that the man in photo five had “similar hair” to the shooter.
Sallie could not identify Jones in court. Najeem Mirzada did not identify
Jones at the Starbucks photo lineup or in court.
On July 30, 2013, Heather Tackett participated in a photo lineup. She
pointed to Jones’s photo and told police, “ ‘This is the person I saw.’ ” Tackett
also identified Jones at trial as the man she saw running away from the area
of the gunshots on the evening of June 16, 2013.
On July 31, 2013, Olayo Maradiaga participated in a photo lineup and
picked out Jones’s photo, stating he was “ ‘not a hundred percent sure’ ”
because the shooter had been “ ‘very far away from him.’ ” Maradiaga
testified both that he assumed, and did not assume, that the police had a
suspect when he looked at the photo lineup. He did his best to choose the
photo of the person “who looked the most like the shooter.” Maradiaga could
not identify Jones at trial.

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 B. The Defense Case
As noted, Jones’s defense was misidentification. Dr. Mitchell Eisen
testified as an expert in witness memory. Dr. Eisen testified as to various
factors that can affect the reliability of eyewitness identifications. As to the
relationship between a witness’s confidence in making an identification and
the accuracy of that identification, Dr. Eisen testified: “We know that when
somebody makes a choice, if it’s a fair and unbiased task, that confidence at
the time of choosing is generally related to accuracy. It’s not perfect, it’s not
diagnostic, but it’s generally a positive relationship, as well as speed in
choosing. [¶] However, once you get—in addition to the caveats I gave you if
it’s an unfair task or if there’s problems with the task that excuse it, more
importantly, once you get outside of that box, once you get outside of that
moment of choosing, then confidence isn’t related to accuracy at all.”
Dr. Eisen later reiterated: “[I]t turns out confidence at the time of the ID
when it’s a fair task is a decent indicator of accuracy, but then confidence is
totally unrelated to accuracy once you get outside of that box.”
Jones’s sister Lyndetta Jones lived at the apartment complex in June
2013, and Jones visited her a few times a week. On the evening of the
shooting, June 16, Ms. Jones arrived home from work as early as 7:45 p.m.
and as late as around 8:30 p.m. She did not see Jones that night. Ms. Jones
heard gunshots and went outside to see what had happened.
Jones’s friend Shanay Mallory lived down the street from the
apartment complex, and Jones visited frequently in 2013. Mallory did not
see Jones on the day of the shooting.
A defense investigator took photos toward the parking lot from the
window of the apartment where Tackett had lived at the time of the shooting.
He was unable to see the facial features of people standing about 90 feet
away at night.

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 C. Procedural Background: The Charges, Verdicts, and Sentence
An information filed in October 2014 charged Jones with four counts of
attempted murder (counts 1–4; Pen. Code,2 §§ 187, subd. (a), 664), i.e., one
count pertaining to each of the four people in the car at the time of the
shooting—Massaquoi, Sallie, Prasad, and Mirzada. The information also
charged Jones with four counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm
(counts 5–8; § 245, subd. (b)) (as to the same four people), one count of
shooting at an occupied vehicle (count 9; § 246), and one count of being a felon
in possession of a firearm (count 10; § 29800, subd. (a)(1)). The information
alleged as to the attempted murder counts that Jones personally used and
intentionally discharged a firearm (§§ 12022.5, subd. (a), 12022.53, subds. (b),
(c)), and as to the assault charges that he personally used a firearm
(§ 12022.5, subd. (a)). The information alleged Jones had a prior serious
felony conviction (§ 667, subd. (a)(1))—a 2004 conviction for carjacking—that
qualified as a “strike” (§§ 667, subd. (e)(1), 1170.12, subd. (c)(1)), and for
which he had served a prison term (§ 667.5, former subd. (b)).
In February 2016, the jury found Jones guilty of the attempted murder
of Massaquoi as charged in count 1 and found true the associated firearm
enhancements. The jury found Jones not guilty of the attempted murders of
Sallie, Prasad, and Mirzada as charged in counts 2 through 4. The jury found
Jones guilty of all four counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm
(counts 5 through 8) and the firearm enhancements for those counts, as well
as the count 9 charge of shooting at an occupied vehicle and the count 10
charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Jones waived his right to a
jury trial on the prior conviction allegation, and the court found the

2 Undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code.

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allegation true. The record does not reflect that the court addressed the prior
prison term enhancement allegation.
On December 16, 2019, nearly four years after the jury verdict, Jones,
now represented by a different attorney, filed a motion for new trial. On
February 28, 2020, the court denied the motion for new trial and sentenced
Jones to 56 years in prison, with credit for 2,398 days of actual time served,
plus additional conduct credit. Jones appealed.
In April 2020, the court filed amended minutes and an amended
abstract of judgment revising its sentencing calculations and reflecting that it
had sentenced Jones to 59 years in prison, determined as follows: On the
count 1 attempted murder conviction (§§ 187, subd. (a), 664), the court
imposed the upper term of nine years, doubled to 18 years because of Jones’s
prior strike (§§ 667, subd. (e)(1), 1170.12, subd. (c)(1)). As to its selection of
the upper term for count 1, the court had identified several aggravating
factors at the February 2020 sentencing hearing: (1) the crime involved great
violence and the threat of great bodily harm; (2) Jones used a weapon during
the commission of the crime; (3) the victim (Massaquoi) was particularly
vulnerable; (4) Jones had engaged in violent conduct and posed a serious
danger to society; (5) he had served a prior prison term; and (6) he was on
parole when he committed the present crime. The court stated there were no
factors in mitigation.
The court imposed a consecutive 20-year term for the count 1
enhancement that during the commission of the attempted murder Jones
personally and intentionally discharged a firearm (§ 12022.53, subd. (c)). As
to the convictions in counts 6 through 8 for assault with a semiautomatic
firearm, the court imposed consecutive terms of four years each (§ 245,
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consecutive terms of 16 months (one-third of the middle term) on the
attendant gun-use enhancements (§ 12022.5, subd. (a)). The court imposed a
consecutive five-year term for Jones’s prior serious felony conviction (§ 667,
subd. (a)(1)).3 As to the remaining counts of conviction (counts 5, 9, and 10),
the court imposed middle terms but stayed them pursuant to section 654.
II. DISCUSSION
A. The Inclusion of Witness Certainty as a Factor in the Instruction
on Eyewitness Identification Evidence Did Not Violate Jones’s
Due Process Rights
The trial court instructed the jurors with a version of CALCRIM
No. 315, which listed 14 factors they should consider when evaluating
eyewitness identification evidence. One of the factors was: “How certain was
the witness when he or she made an identification?”4

3 The minute order and abstract of judgment incorrectly state this five-
year term was imposed pursuant to section 667.5, subdivision (b); the five-
year term for a prior serious felony conviction is authorized by section 667,
subdivision (a)(1). We will direct that, if the superior court again imposes
this five-year term on resentencing, the abstract of judgment should reflect
that the basis for the term is section 667, subdivision (a)(1).
As noted, the information did also allege that Jones had served a prior
prison term, which would have triggered a one-year enhancement under
section 667.5, former subdivision (b). That enhancement was not imposed
here, and the prior prison term Jones served for his 2004 carjacking
conviction no longer provided a basis for a section 667.5, subdivision (b)
one-year term by the time of Jones’s February 2020 sentencing. (See § 667.5,
subd. (b), as amended by Stats. 2019, ch. 590, § 1 [authorizing additional
one-year term only where defendant’s prior prison term was for a sexually
violent offense].)
4 The instruction stated: “You have heard eyewitness testimony
identifying the defendant. As with any other witness, you must decide
whether an eyewitness gave truthful and accurate testimony. [¶] In

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 Jones contends that, by instructing the jury to consider witness
certainty in assessing eyewitness identification evidence, the court rendered
his trial fundamentally unfair and thus violated his due process rights. He
argues the instruction misleadingly suggests a witness’s certainty in making
an identification is correlated with the accuracy of the identification. We find
no due process violation on this record.
In People v. Lemcke (2021) 11 Cal.5th 644, 646 (Lemcke), our Supreme
Court rejected a similar due process claim arising from CALCRIM No. 315.
The court outlined the governing standard: “ ‘The touchstone of due process
is fundamental fairness.’ [Citations.] A jury instruction may ‘ “so infuse[] the
trial with unfairness as to deny due process of law.” ’ [Citation.] However,
‘ “not every ambiguity, inconsistency, or deficiency in a jury instruction rises
to the level of a due process violation. The question is ‘ “whether the ailing

evaluating identification testimony, consider the following questions: [¶] Did
the witness know or have contact with the defendant before the event?
[¶] How well could the witness see the perpetrator? [¶] What were the
circumstances affecting the witness’s ability to observe, such as lighting,
weather conditions, obstructions, distance, and duration of observation?
[¶] How closely was the witness paying attention? [¶] Was the witness under
stress when he or she made the observation? [¶] Did the witness give a
description and how does that description compare to the defendant? [¶] How
much time passed between the event and the time when the witness
identified the defendant? [¶] Was the witness asked to pick the perpetrator
out of a group? [¶] Did the witness ever fail to identify the defendant? [¶] Did
the witness ever change his or her mind about the identification? [¶] How
certain was the witness when he or she made an identification? [¶] Are the
witness and the defendant of different races? [¶] Was the witness able to
identify the defendant in a photographic or physical lineup? [¶] Were there
any other circumstances affecting the witness’s ability to make an accurate
identification? [¶] The People have the burden of proving beyond a
reasonable doubt that it was the defendant who committed the crime. If the
People have not met this burden, you must find the defendant not guilty.”
(Some punctuation omitted.)

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instruction . . . so infected the entire trial that the resulting conviction
violates due process.” ’ ” ’ [Citation.] ‘ “It is well established that the
instruction ‘may not be judged in artificial isolation,’ but must be considered
in the context of the instructions as a whole and the trial record.” ’
[Citations.] ‘ “If the charge as a whole is ambiguous, the question is whether
there is a ‘ “reasonable likelihood that the jury has applied the challenged
instruction in a way” that violates the Constitution.’ ” ’ ” (Lemcke, at p. 655.)
As to the challenge in that case, the Lemcke court rejected the claim by
a defendant there (Rudd) that the witness certainty factor in CALCRIM
No. 315 violated his due process rights. (Lemcke, supra, 11 Cal.5th at p. 646.)
The court determined that, when considered in light of the trial record as a
whole (including expert testimony presented by the defense and other
instructions given to the jury), inclusion of the certainty factor in CALCRIM
No. 315 did not render the defendant’s trial fundamentally unfair. (Lemcke,
at pp. 646–647, 661; see People v. Wright (2021) 12 Cal.5th 419, 452–453
[applying Lemcke and rejecting due process challenge to analogous
instruction, CALJIC No. 2.92].)
Although it found no due process violation, the Lemcke court concluded
that reevaluation of “the certainty instruction” was warranted, because
empirical research shows that “ ‘eyewitness confidence is generally an
unreliable indicator of accuracy.’ ” (Lemcke, supra, 11 Cal.5th at p. 647.) The
court referred the issue to the Judicial Council and its Advisory Committee
on Criminal Jury Instructions “to evaluate whether or how the instruction
might be modified to avoid juror confusion regarding the correlation between
certainty and accuracy.” (Ibid.) Finally, the Supreme Court in Lemcke,
acting pursuant to its supervisory powers, directed that “until the Judicial
Council has completed its evaluation, trial courts should omit the certainty

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factor from CALCRIM No. 315 unless the defendant requests otherwise.”
(Id. at pp. 647–648.)5
Here, we conclude that, for many of the same reasons present in
Lemcke, the inclusion of the certainty factor as one of 14 listed in CALCRIM
No. 315 did not render Jones’s trial fundamentally unfair or violate his due
process rights.6 As outlined by the Lemcke court, the defendant there argued
that “instructing the jury to consider an eyewitness’s level of certainty,
without clarifying the limited correlation between certainty and accuracy,
violates due process in two ways. First, the instruction ‘lowers the
prosecution’s burden of proof ’ by causing jurors to ‘equat[e] certainty with
accuracy, when science establishes otherwise.’ Second, the instruction denies
the defendant ‘a “meaningful opportunity to present a complete defense” ’ as
to ‘why the identification was flawed . . . .’ ” (Lemcke, supra, 11 Cal.5th at
p. 657.)

5 We note CALCRIM No. 315 was revised in March 2022 to include the
certainty question in brackets, a bracketed admonition that a witness’s
expression of certainty “may not be a reliable indicator of accuracy,” and a
further set of bracketed factors for the jury to consider when evaluating the
significance of the witness’s certainty, along with directions as to when each
of these portions of the instruction should be given. (CALCRIM No. 315
(2022 ed.); id., Bench Notes.)
6 The Attorney General argues Jones forfeited his claim of instructional
error because his trial counsel did not object to inclusion of the certainty
factor in CALCRIM No. 315 or ask the court to modify the instruction. (See
People v. Sánchez (2016) 63 Cal.4th 411, 461–462 [defendant forfeited
challenge by not requesting modification of analogous instruction, CALJIC
No. 2.92].) But in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Lemcke raising
potential constitutional issues with the eyewitness identification instruction
(depending on the record), we review the merits of Jones’s contention the
instruction violated his constitutional rights on the record before us. (See
§ 1259 [even absent trial objection, appellate court may review claim of
instructional error that affects defendant’s substantial rights].)

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 The Lemcke court rejected both arguments. (Lemcke, supra, 11 Cal.5th
at pp. 657–660.) As to the burden of proof, the court noted “the instruction
does not direct the jury that ‘certainty equals accuracy’ ” and does not “state
that the jury must presume an identification is accurate if the eyewitness has
expressed certainty.” (Lemcke, supra, at p. 657.) The instruction just lists
the witness’s level of certainty as one of numerous factors the jury should
consider when evaluating eyewitness testimony, with the jury free to
determine what weight to give each factor. (Ibid.) These observations apply
equally to CALCRIM No. 315 as given in this case.
The Lemcke court noted “the wording of the instruction might cause
some jurors to infer that certainty is generally correlative of accuracy,” but
the court emphasized the defendant “was permitted to present expert witness
testimony to combat that inference.” (Lemcke, supra, 11 Cal.5th at pp. 657–
658.) Dr. Mitchell Eisen (the same expert who testified at Jones’s trial)
testified in Lemcke “that the only time certainty may be useful in assessing
accuracy is when the identification is made in close temporal proximity to the
event and law enforcement has utilized nonsuggestive procedures. According
to Eisen, ‘outside that window, . . . confidence is not related to accuracy in
any regard.’ Eisen emphasized that in-trial identification testimony is
particularly meaningless because it does not ‘reflect[] memory.’ Eisen also
described the procedures law enforcement should follow to ensure an
accurate identification and answered a series of hypothetical questions that
were designed to show those procedures were not followed in this case.” (Id.
at p. 658.)
Also in support of its conclusion that CALCRIM No. 315 did not lower
the prosecution’s burden of proof, the Lemcke court pointed to the language of
that instruction and several other instructions given to the jury. CALCRIM

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No. 315 did not suggest the jury should ignore Eisen’s expert opinion on
witness certainty, and in fact the jury “received a separate instruction on
expert testimony (CALCRIM No. 332) directing that it ‘must consider th[ose]
opinions.’ (Italics added.)” (Lemcke, supra, 11 Cal.5th at p. 658.) “The jury
also received a general instruction on witness testimony explaining that
‘[p]eople sometimes honestly . . . make mistakes about what they remember’
and that the jurors were responsible for ‘judg[ing] the credibility or
believability of the witnesses.’ The jury ‘thus remained free to exercise its
collective judgment to reject what it did not find trustworthy or plausible.’ ”
(Ibid.) Finally, the trial court in Lemcke “expressly directed the jury that
Rudd was presumed innocent, and that the prosecution had the burden of
proving all elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt,” a point that
was reiterated in CALCRIM No. 315 itself as to Rudd’s identity, with the
instruction specifying: “ ‘The People have the burden of proving beyond a
reasonable doubt that it was the defendant who committed the crime. If the
People have not met this burden, you must find the defendant not guilty.’ ”
(Lemcke, at p. 658.)
The same factors identified in Lemcke are present in this case, and we
conclude the inclusion of the witness certainty factor in CALCRIM No. 315
did not lower the prosecution’s burden of proof or otherwise violate due
process here.7 Dr. Eisen testified at Jones’s trial (as he did in Lemcke) that,

7 As to the defendant’s second due process argument in Lemcke—that
CALCRIM No. 315 denied him the opportunity to present a complete defense
on the issue of identity—the Supreme Court was unpersuaded. (Lemcke,
supra, 11 Cal.5th at p. 660.) The court noted the defendant there “was
permitted to put on a vigorous defense on the issue of identity,” including by
presenting expert testimony, emphasizing that testimony in closing
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except in certain circumstances, a witness’s level of certainty is not related to
accuracy. (Lemcke, supra, 11 Cal.5th at pp. 657–658.) And the instructions
highlighted in Lemcke were given here, including (1) CALCRIM No. 332
(directing the jury to consider the opinions of experts), (2) a general
instruction on witness credibility (CALCRIM No. 226) that noted people
sometimes make mistakes about what they remember, and emphasized the
jury is responsible for assessing credibility, (3) an instruction stating Jones
was presumed innocent and the prosecution had the burden to prove his guilt
beyond a reasonable doubt (CALCRIM No. 220), and (4) the language in
CALCRIM No. 315 itself that reiterated that point specifically as to identity,
requiring proof beyond a reasonable doubt “that it was the defendant who
committed the crime.”
Jones argues that, in contrast to Lemcke, the inclusion of the certainty
factor in CALCRIM No. 315 did render his trial fundamentally unfair and
thus violated his due process rights. He contends Dr. Eisen “testified less
definitively” in his case than in Lemcke about the limited correlation of
witness certainty and accuracy. We disagree. In both Lemcke and the
present case, Dr. Eisen testified that a witness’s early expression of certainty
is related to accuracy when the identification procedure is fair and unbiased.
(Lemcke, supra, 11 Cal.5th at pp. 651–652, 658.) Dr. Eisen also testified
here, similar to his testimony in Lemcke, that certainty is not indicative of
accuracy when there is a biased procedure or when time has passed since the

the investigating officers about the lineup procedures. (Ibid.) Here, too,
Jones was permitted to present expert testimony about witness identification;
his counsel cross-examined witnesses about the identifications and the lineup
procedures; and counsel argued the issue of identity to the jury. Jones does
not appear to argue he was deprived of an opportunity to present a complete
defense, and any such argument would fail.

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witness’s first identification, because of the “post identification feedback
effect,” i.e., the bolstering of the witness’s confidence by the progress of the
investigation (including in some cases the arrest or charging of a suspect) or
by being told that he or she picked the right person. (Ibid.) We are not
persuaded by Jones’s suggestion that fine distinctions in the wording used by
Dr. Eisen in the two cases detracted from these fundamental points.
Jones also notes that, on cross-examination in the present case, the
prosecutor asked Dr. Eisen about the factors listed in CALCRIM No. 315.
Dr. Eisen stated the listed factors “are basically studied factors because
they’re commonsensically related.” Dr. Eisen further stated: “This is what
the Supreme Court decided in the ’70s, before a lot of this research,
commonsensically jurors should consider when evaluating eyewitness
testimony.” Jones is incorrect in suggesting Dr. Eisen’s descriptive
statements about the factors listed in the pattern instruction somehow
amounted to an endorsement of them. We do not agree that Dr. Eisen’s
testimony here was less helpful to the defense than the testimony he
provided in Lemcke, or that any distinctions between his testimonies on the
two occasions resulted in a due process violation. The testimony in each case
allowed the defense to “combat” the possible inference that “some jurors”
“might” draw from CALCRIM No. 315 “that certainty is generally correlative
of accuracy.” (Lemcke, supra, 11 Cal.5th at pp. 657–658.)
Jones’s remaining arguments are not persuasive. He contends the
direction in CALCRIM No. 332 (an instruction cited in Lemcke) that the jury
is to consider the opinions of experts served here to reinforce the allegedly
lukewarm nature of Dr. Eisen’s testimony. As discussed, we disagree with
Jones’s characterization of that testimony. Neither the expert testimony nor

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the instruction directing the jury to consider it supports his due process
claim.
Jones also notes that the prosecutor in closing argument stressed P.T.’s
and Tackett’s certainty in their identifications, along with Massaquoi’s
positive identification in court. The prosecutor also mentioned CALCRIM
No. 315’s certainty factor, along with several of the other factors listed in the
instruction. Jones suggests this point was argued less forcefully by the
prosecutor in Lemcke, but (as summarized by the Supreme Court) the
prosecutor there too noted the sole eyewitness had been consistent in
identifying the defendants, and pointed to several of the factors in CALCRIM
No. 315, including the certainty factor. (Lemcke, supra, 11 Cal.5th at p. 652.)
Moreover, as the Attorney General notes, Jones’s trial counsel in his
summation attacked the reliability of the identifications of Jones and
emphasized the instances where witnesses did not identify him. In this
context and in light of the record as a whole, we do not agree with Jones that
the arguably problematic certainty factor (again, one of 14 listed in
CALCRIM No. 315 for the jurors to consider and weigh as they saw fit)
infected the entire trial so as to render it fundamentally unfair.
Finally, Jones argues the questions from the jurors (asking for
readback of P.T.’s and Tackett’s testimony) and the length of their
deliberations (which he calculates at 19 hours) suggest that the case was
close and that witness certainty “likely played an important role” in the
jurors’ decision. As the Attorney General notes and as Jones appears to
acknowledge, the purported closeness of the identification issue would not on
its own establish a violation of due process. In light of the factors we have
discussed above—including Dr. Eisen’s testimony, the full set of instructions

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given to the jury, and the arguments of counsel—we conclude the inclusion of
the certainty factor in CALCRIM No. 315 did not violate due process here.
B. Alleged Pitchess Error
Jones argues (1) the court erred by denying his pretrial motion for
discovery of information in police personnel records pursuant to Pitchess,
(2) the court erred by denying his new trial motion alleging in part that the
pretrial Pitchess ruling was error, and (3) to the extent it would not have
been futile for his trial counsel to renew the Pitchess motion during trial, his
counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to do so. We reject these
arguments.
1. Additional Background
On November 16, 2015, prior to trial, Jones filed a Pitchess motion
alleging intentional suggestiveness in the photo lineup procedures, through
either words or actions, by Alameda County Sheriff’s Office Deputies Robert
Young and Gustavo Mora. County counsel filed an opposition arguing the
motion was overbroad and otherwise defective, including for failure to file a
declaration showing good cause for the discovery (see Evid. Code, § 1043,
subd. (b)(3)). Jones filed a supplemental motion and an accompanying
declaration of counsel on January 27, 2016. Jones sought disclosure of
information about “complaints from any and all sources relating to acts of
violation of constitutional rights, fabrication of charges, fabrication of
evidence, fabrication of reasonable suspicion and/or probable cause, illegal
search/seizure; false arrest, perjury, and any other evidence of misconduct
amounting to moral turpitude . . . .”
Jones alleged (in his initial motion and by incorporation in his
supplemental motion) that Deputy Young conducted an unfairly suggestive
second photo lineup with the four occupants of the car, where Jones was the
only person to appear in both lineups. Jones also suggested improper

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influence was placed on Maradiaga, who said on the night of the incident that
he would not be able to identify the shooter, but then identified Jones in a
lineup six weeks later. Jones stated Deputy Young asked Deputy Mora to
conduct the lineup with Maradiaga, who spoke Spanish.
In his supplemental motion, Jones included additional allegations
about Young. Jones pointed to evidence Heather Tackett had stated (and
testified at the preliminary hearing) that she made her observations from
inside her apartment, but in an affidavit for a search warrant for DNA
evidence, Deputy Young averred that Tackett went outside her apartment
where she saw Jones, who then drove away in a car. Jones also stated that
Young would testify Massaquoi had identified Jones at a lineup, but that
Massaquoi denied having made an identification.
In his declaration in support of the supplemental motion, defense
counsel stated it would be Jones’s position at trial that Deputy Young
“conducted a lineup that was purposely suggestive.” But the declaration’s
principal focus was a broader assertion that Deputy Young’s veracity was a
significant issue in the case. In that regard, the declaration stated that a
question at trial would be whether Young falsely represented that Massaquoi
had identified Jones at the unrecorded second lineup, which Massaquoi
denied having done. As another example of the importance of Deputy
Young’s veracity, the declaration pointed to Young’s statement in his search
warrant affidavit that Tackett was outside her apartment when she saw
Jones and that she saw him drive away, a version of events that was
inconsistent with Tackett’s prior testimony.8

8 Paragraphs 5–7 of the declaration set forth these allegations as
follows: “5. A substantial issue in the case at bar is the veracity of Deputy
Young. Specifically, at issue will be whether the Deputy falsely represented

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 Counsel stated in his declaration that evidence of complaints against
Deputy Young alleging a lack of truthfulness or fabrication of evidence was
necessary for a proper defense because the evidence would help counsel
(a) locate witnesses and other evidence that Young had a “character trait for
a lack of truthfulness to show that he acted in conformity with that character
trait,” (b) locate witnesses and other evidence that Young had a “character
trait and propensity for fabricating or embellishing evidence, to show that he
acted in conformity with that character trait in this case and/or acted
consistently with that propensity,” (c) properly prepare a cross-examination
of Young, an essential prosecution witness, with the goal of showing Young
had “a morally lax character and a propensity to lie and fabricate evidence,”
and (d) properly assess the credibility of Jones’s potential testimony and that
of prosecution witnesses such as Tackett. The declaration focused solely on
Deputy Young and did not include any allegations about Deputy Mora.9

the untap[ed] conversation with eye witness Mr. Massaquoi in which Deputy
Young claims that Mr. Massaquoi positively identified defendant, and
Mr. Massaquoi claims to have not done so. [¶] 6. Another specific instance of
the importan[ce] of Deputy Young’s veracity arise[s] from his alleged false
statements, written under penalty of perjury, in which he had factual
assertions about the eye witness account of witness Heather Tackett. In his
search warrant affidavit, Deputy Young claimed that Ms. Tacket[t] observed
defendant from outside her residence and saw defendant drive away.
Ms. Tacket[t] has testified inconsistently with these assertions by the deputy.
[¶] 7. Defendant has pled not guilty, and has maintained his innocence. It
will be the defense’s position at trial that Deputy Young conducted a lineup
that was purposely suggestive and then misrepresented the statements made
by the witness participants in that lineup. It will also be defendant’s claim at
trial that Deputy Young’s statements in his affidavit describing
Ms. Tacket[t]’s account of his identification were false.”
9 It appears the defense had narrowed its focus to Deputy Young by the
time of the filing of the supplemental motion. The supplemental motion does
in one spot reiterate the request from the initial motion seeking records about

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 After hearing argument on the Pitchess motion, the court denied it
without prejudice. At the hearing, the court and counsel focused on the
instances of alleged misconduct highlighted by defense counsel in his
supplemental papers, starting with Deputy Young’s alleged
misrepresentation in the search warrant affidavit about what Tackett said
about where she was standing when she saw Jones after hearing the
gunshots. The court expressed the view that, because Young’s affidavit
established probable cause to search even without the statements of Tackett,
the officer may have been “somewhat negligent” at worst.
As to Deputy Young’s statement that Massaquoi had identified Jones in
the unrecorded second lineup, defense counsel noted at the hearing that
Massaquoi later told a deputy district attorney that he had not made a
positive identification. Counsel also noted that at the preliminary hearing,
Massaquoi did not identify Jones as the shooter. The court suggested
Massaquoi’s failure to identify Jones (after having reportedly done so in the
second lineup) might stem from fear of retaliation for testifying. The court
also emphasized, however, that “[w]e don’t know what [Massaquoi is] going to
say at trial.” In part for that reason, the court denied the Pitchess motion
without prejudice.
In his new trial motion filed in December 2019, Jones argued in part
that the court erred by denying his pretrial Pitchess motion for discovery of
information from Deputy Young’s personnel file. Jones contended the court
needed to “remedy that error” by conducting the in camera review it should
have conducted pretrial and determining whether the defense “was

Deputies Young and Mora, but the memorandum in support of the
supplemental motion states that the initial motion was “denied” by the court
and that Jones is now “seeking the same discovery with respect to Deputy
Young.” (Italics added.)

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prejudiced by that error.” At the hearing on the new trial motion, Jones’s
counsel argued the pretrial Pitchess motion had sufficiently alleged officer
misconduct to warrant in camera review. The court denied the new trial
motion without comment.
2. Analysis
Pitchess establishes that “a criminal defendant [can] ‘compel discovery’
of certain relevant information in the personnel files of police officers by
making ‘general allegations which establish some cause for discovery’ of that
information and by showing how it would support a defense to the charge
against him.” (Warrick v. Superior Court (2005) 35 Cal.4th 1011, 1018–1019
(Warrick); see Pen. Code, §§ 832.7, 832.8; Evid. Code, §§ 1043–1045.)
Pursuant to Pitchess discovery procedure, the moving party must file a
written motion describing the type of records sought, supported by
“[a]ffidavits showing good cause for the discovery or disclosure sought, setting
forth the materiality thereof to the subject matter involved in the pending
litigation and stating upon reasonable belief that the governmental agency
identified has the records or information from the records.” (Evid. Code,
§ 1043, subd. (b)(3).) “A motion for discovery of peace officer personnel
records is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court, reviewable for
abuse.” (Alford v. Superior Court (2003) 29 Cal.4th 1033, 1039 (lead opn. of
Werdegar, J.).)
To establish good cause for in camera review of an officer’s personnel
records, “defense counsel’s declaration in support of a Pitchess motion must
propose a defense or defenses to the pending charges. The declaration must
articulate how the discovery sought may lead to relevant evidence or may
itself be admissible direct or impeachment evidence [citations] that would
support those proposed defenses. These requirements ensure that only
information ‘potentially relevant’ to the defense need be brought by the

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custodian of the officer’s records to the court for its examination in chambers.
[Citations.] [¶] Counsel’s affidavit must also describe a factual scenario
supporting the claimed officer misconduct. That factual scenario, depending
on the circumstances of the case, may consist of a denial of the facts asserted
in the police report.” (Warrick, supra, 35 Cal.4th at pp. 1024–1025.)
“In other cases, the trial court hearing a Pitchess motion will have
before it defense counsel’s affidavit, and in addition a police report, witness
statements, or other pertinent documents. The court then determines
whether defendant’s averments, ‘[v]iewed in conjunction with the police
reports’ and any other documents, suffice to ‘establish a plausible factual
foundation’ for the alleged officer misconduct and to ‘articulate a valid theory
as to how the information sought might be admissible’ at trial. [Citation.] . . .
What the defendant must present is a specific factual scenario of officer
misconduct that is plausible when read in light of the pertinent documents.”
(Warrick, supra, 35 Cal.4th at p. 1025.) “[A] plausible scenario of officer
misconduct is one that might or could have occurred. Such a scenario is
plausible because it presents an assertion of specific police misconduct that is
both internally consistent and supports the defense proposed to the charges.
A defendant must also show how the information sought could lead to or be
evidence potentially admissible at trial. Such a showing ‘put[s] the court on
notice’ that the specified officer misconduct ‘will likely be an issue at trial.’ ”
(Id. at p. 1026.)
Applying these standards here, we first conclude the court’s denial of in
camera review was not an abuse of discretion as to Deputy Mora. Defense
counsel’s Pitchess declaration did not allege any misconduct by Mora (or
mention his name), and the memorandum in support of the supplemental
Pitchess motion explained the motion was being renewed specifically as to

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Deputy Young. We reject the suggestion in Jones’s appellate briefs that the
court should have reviewed Deputy Mora’s personnel file.
As to Deputy Young, to the extent counsel’s declaration broadly sought
materials that could be used to impeach Young or challenge his veracity, that
request does not, in our view, meet the good cause standard outlined in
Warrick, which requires that requests for information from police personnel
records be narrowly tailored to the specific officer misconduct alleged in the
declaration, and in turn that the alleged misconduct must support the
defense proposed to the charges. (Warrick, supra, 35 Cal.4th at pp. 1024–
1026.) Counsel’s declaration here did not propose a specific defense to the
charges, stating generally that Jones had pleaded not guilty and maintained
his innocence. Jones now argues on appeal that the requested materials
“would have bolstered the defense that appellant was misidentified” and
would have supported a defense effort to exclude identifications that resulted
from allegedly faulty lineup procedures, but the declaration that was
submitted to the trial court did not make that argument. We cannot fault the
court for not adopting it.
As to alleged misconduct by Young, the declaration stated generally
that it would be Jones’s position at trial that Young “conducted a lineup that
was purposely suggestive” (without including details about how the lineup
was improper, although some information on that point was included in the
initial Pitchess motion). But the declaration focused principally on two
allegedly false statements by Young, i.e., (1) Young’s statement that
Massaquoi positively identified Jones as the shooter in the July 28 photo
lineup (which, at that point, Massaquoi claimed not to have done), and
(2) Young’s statement in a search warrant affidavit that Tackett saw Jones
from outside her apartment, which was inconsistent with Tackett’s

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preliminary hearing testimony. At the hearing on the Pitchess motion, the
court (like defense counsel) understandably focused on those alleged
instances of misconduct, rather than on intentional suggestiveness in the
lineup.
Young’s allegedly false statement in a search warrant affidavit that
Tackett went outside her apartment and saw Jones—whether intentionally
false or, as the trial court believed more likely, the product of negligence—
does not appear to be tethered to any claim about the adequacy of the lineup
procedures used by Young. Similarly, the inconsistency between Young and
Massaquoi about what was said at the July 28 lineup (i.e., whether
Massaquoi positively identified Jones as the shooter) does not show the
lineup procedures themselves were or were not faulty. In these
circumstances, we conclude the court did not abuse its discretion by
determining Jones had not made an adequate showing to compel in camera
review. Jones did not present a “specific factual scenario of officer
misconduct” that “supports [a] defense proposed to the charges.” (Warrick,
supra, 35 Cal.4th at pp. 1025–1026.)
Finally, although this information of course was not available to the
trial court when it ruled on the pretrial Pitchess motion, we note that Young’s
allegedly false pretrial statements about Tackett’s and Massaquoi’s
statements did not end up being the critical evidence on those points at trial,
because Tackett and Massaquoi testified about the events in question.
Tackett testified she was inside her apartment, looked out through the
blinds, and saw Jones running. Massaquoi identified Jones at trial, and he
testified he was confident in his identification of Jones at the July 28 lineup.
Because we conclude the court did not err in denying Jones’s pretrial
Pitchess motion, we also conclude the court did not abuse its discretion when

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it denied Jones’s motion for a new trial alleging in part that the pretrial
Pitchess ruling was error. Jones’s appellate argument that information
developed during trial supported in camera review does not establish that the
court’s pretrial ruling was an error supporting a grant of a new trial.
Finally, we reject Jones’s claim that his trial counsel provided
ineffective assistance by failing to renew the Pitchess motion during trial.
Jones notes that during trial, the parties stipulated that Massaquoi told a
deputy district attorney that in the July 28 lineup he picked the person who
“looked most like the suspect out of the six photos,” but that he “was not very
confident in his selection.” The parties also stipulated that no police report
indicated that Massaquoi told any officer he saw Jones on the night of the
shooting, which was relevant because in the same search warrant affidavit
that included Young’s challenged statement about Tackett, Young arguably
suggested incorrectly that Massaquoi knew the suspect’s name or had
identified Jones by name.
In our view, these developments, while perhaps bolstering Jones’s
ability to challenge Young’s veracity generally, did not substantially
strengthen his prospects of establishing good cause for in camera review of
police personnel records under the standards outlined above in our discussion
of the pretrial Pitchess motion. We cannot conclude that counsel, by not
raising the Pitchess issue again during trial, rendered constitutionally
deficient performance for purposes of an ineffective assistance of counsel
claim. (See Strickland v. Washington (1984) 466 U.S. 668, 688 [defendant
claiming ineffective assistance must show “counsel’s representation fell below
an objective standard of reasonableness”].)
C. The Need for a Remand for Resentencing
Jones argues in his opening brief that we should remand for
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and Senate Bill No. 1393 (which took effect in 2018 and 2019, respectively)—
confer discretion on the trial court to strike the firearm and prior serious
felony enhancements it imposed at sentencing in 2020.10 In a supplemental
brief, Jones contends a remand for resentencing is also necessary in light of
more recent legislation that took effect on January 1, 2022, and modified
applicable sentencing statutes, specifically sections 1170, subdivision (b), and
654. The Attorney General agrees the latter set of legislative enactments—
Senate Bill No. 567 and Assembly Bill No. 518—apply retroactively and that
this court should remand for resentencing.
We conclude that, because of the postsentencing changes in the law
effected by Senate Bill No. 567 (2021–2022 Reg. Sess.) (Senate Bill 567) and
Assembly Bill No. 518 (2021–2022 Reg. Sess.) (Assembly Bill 518), a remand
for a full resentencing is necessary. At that resentencing, Jones may present
arguments as to any sentencing issue, including as to whether the firearm
and prior serious felony enhancements should be imposed. We therefore need
not address the parties’ contentions as to whether the earlier enactments
that specifically pertain to enhancements (Senate Bill 620 and Senate
Bill 1393, both of which took effect before Jones was sentenced) would
themselves provide a basis for a remand for resentencing.

10 Senate Bill No. 620 (2017–2018 Reg. Sess.) (Senate Bill 620), which
took effect on January 1, 2018, amended sections 12022.5 and 12022.53 to
provide that a sentencing court has discretion to strike or dismiss the firearm
enhancements authorized by those sections. (§§ 12022.5, subd. (c), 12022.53,
subd. (h); Stats. 2017, ch. 682, §§ 1, 2; see People v. Woods (2018)
19 Cal.App.5th 1080, 1090.) Senate Bill No. 1393 (2017–2018 Reg. Sess.)
(Senate Bill 1393) became effective a year later, on January 1, 2019, and
amended sections 667, subdivision (a), and 1385, subdivision (b), to give a
trial court the authority to strike or dismiss a prior serious felony
enhancement. (Stats. 2018, ch. 1013, §§ 1, 2; see People v. Stamps (2020)
9 Cal.5th 685, 702.)

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 Turning to the more recent legislation, Senate Bill 567 amended
section 1170, subdivision (b), to specify that, when a sentencing court chooses
a term from a statutory triad, the chosen term shall not exceed the middle
term, unless the facts supporting the aggravating circumstances are
(1) established by the defendant’s stipulation to them, (2) proven to a jury (or
to a court, if jury is waived) beyond a reasonable doubt, or (3) based on prior
convictions evidenced by a certified record of conviction. (Stats. 2021, ch. 731,
§§ 1.3, 3(c), adding § 1170, subd. (b)(1)–(3), by amendment.) Jones contends
the court imposed the upper term for count 1 based on grounds that do not
meet these requirements. Senate Bill 567 also added a provision that
requires the court to impose the low term if the defendant’s psychological,
physical, or childhood trauma was a contributing factor in the commission of
the offense, “unless the court finds that the aggravating circumstances
outweigh the mitigating circumstances [so] that imposition of the lower term
would be contrary to the interests of justice.” (Stats. 2021, ch. 731, §§ 1.3,
3(c), adding § 1170, subd. (b)(6), by amendment.)11 As to this latter provision,

11 The parties cite Assembly Bill No. 124 (2021–2022 Reg. Sess.)
(Assembly Bill 124) as having amended Penal Code section 1170 to add this
latter provision. As we read the legislation, however, it is Senate Bill 567
that added subdivision (b)(6) to the statute. (Stats. 2021, ch. 731, §§ 1.3,
3(c).) Senate Bill 567, Assembly Bill 124, and one other bill (Assembly Bill
No. 1540 (2021–2022 Reg. Sess.) (Assembly Bill 1540)), all of which were
introduced in the first year of the 2021–2022 legislative term, proposed
various changes to the Penal Code, including amendments to section 1170.
All three bills were passed by the Legislature in September 2021 and
approved by the Governor on October 8, 2021. (See Stats. 2021, ch. 695, § 5
[Assembly Bill 124], effective Jan. 1, 2022; Stats. 2021, ch. 719, § 2 [Assembly
Bill 1540], effective Jan. 1, 2022; Stats. 2021, ch. 731, § 1.3 [Senate Bill 567],
effective Jan. 1, 2022.) The three bills overlapped in that they proposed
similar but not identical amendments to section 1170. But because Senate
Bill 567 was the last bill signed by the Governor and bears the highest

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Jones states in his supplemental brief that a probation report refers to
statements by Jones that his father was charged with murdering his mother
and that Jones dropped out of high school in 12th grade following her death.
Another recent enactment, Assembly Bill 518, amended section 654,
subdivision (a), to provide in relevant part: “An act or omission that is
punishable in different ways by different provisions of law may be punished
under either of such provisions, but in no case shall the act or omission be
punished under more than one provision.” (Stats. 2021, ch. 441, § 1.)
Previously, under section 654 “the sentencing court was required to impose
the sentence that ‘provides for the longest potential term of imprisonment’
and stay execution of the other term. [Citation.] . . . [S]ection 654 now
provides the trial court with discretion to impose and execute the sentence of
either term, which could result in the trial court imposing and executing the
shorter sentence rather than the longer sentence.” (People v. Mani (2022)
74 Cal.App.5th 343, 379.)
The parties agree aspects of Jones’s sentence are potentially affected by
these amendments to sections 1170, subdivision (b), and 654. The court,
applying the pre-Senate Bill 567 version of section 1170, subdivision (b),
imposed the upper term for the count 1 attempted murder conviction and
imposed (but stayed) middle terms for counts 5, 9, and 10. And, applying the
pre-Assembly Bill 518 version of section 654, the court imposed and executed
the term applicable to attempted murder, while imposing but staying the
terms applicable to other counts of conviction.

chapter number, its amendments to section 1170 prevail over the
amendments to that code section specified in the other two bills. (Gov. Code,
§ 9605, subd. (b); In re Thierry S. (1977) 19 Cal.3d 727, 738–739; People v.
Banner (2022) 77 Cal.App.5th 226, 243, fn. 2 (conc. & dis. opn. of Detjen,
Acting P. J.).)

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 We agree with the parties that Jones, whose convictions are not final, is
entitled to retroactive application of the ameliorative changes effected by
Senate Bill 567 and Assembly Bill 518. (People v. Flores (2022)
73 Cal.App.5th 1032, 1039 [“The People correctly concede the amended
version of section 1170, subdivision (b) that became effective on January 1,
2022, applies retroactively in this case as an ameliorative change in the law
applicable to all nonfinal convictions on appeal”]; People v. Mani, supra,
74 Cal.App.5th at p. 379 [“defendant is entitled to [the] ameliorative benefit”
of Assembly Bill 518’s amendment to section 654]; see People v. Vieira (2005)
35 Cal.4th 264, 305–306 [conviction is not final while appeal is pending].)
Remand is therefore necessary for the court to resentence Jones under
amended sections 1170, subdivision (b), and 654. (Mani, at p. 381; Flores, at
p. 1039.)
The Attorney General, citing People v. Buycks (2018) 5 Cal.5th 857,
893, argues the resentencing should be a “ ‘ “full resentencing as to all
counts.” ’ ” The full resentencing rule described in Buycks dictates that
“when part of a sentence is stricken on review, on remand for resentencing ‘a
full resentencing as to all counts is appropriate, so the trial court can exercise
its sentencing discretion in light of the changed circumstances.’ ” (Buycks, at
p. 893; People v. Lopez (2020) 56 Cal.App.5th 835, 844–845, review granted
Jan. 27, 2021, S265936; see People v. Choi (2021) 59 Cal.App.5th 753, 770
[full resentencing appropriate where certain enhancements were stricken];
People v. Burbine (2003) 106 Cal.App.4th 1250, 1259 [full resentencing
appropriate after the reversal of one or more subordinate counts of a felony
conviction].) The full resentencing rule also applies to a resentencing that
occurs pursuant to the recall provisions of section 1170, subdivision (d),
Proposition 36 (Gen. Elec. (Nov. 6, 2012)), or Proposition 47 (Gen. Elec.

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(Nov. 4, 2014)). (Buycks, at p. 893.) A full resentencing may involve the trial
court’s revisiting such decisions as the selection of a principal term, whether
to stay a sentence, whether to impose an upper, middle, or lower term, and
whether to impose concurrent or consecutive sentences. (People v. Valenzuela
(2019) 7 Cal.5th 415, 424–425.)
We agree with the Attorney General that a full resentencing is
appropriate here. Although we are not reversing any of Jones’s convictions or
ruling that a portion of his sentence is invalid (and his sentence has not been
recalled under the statutory provisions cited above), we conclude the need to
apply amended sections 1170, subdivision (b), and 654 creates sufficiently
“ ‘changed circumstances’ ” (People v. Buycks, supra, 5 Cal.5th at p. 893) to
warrant a full resentencing. Application of the amended statutes will require
the trial court, at a minimum, to reconsider which triad term to impose for
certain counts of conviction and which terms to stay under section 654.
(§§ 654, subd. (a), 1170, subd. (b)(1)–(3), (6).) As part of that process, the
court should also be free to reconsider any other components of the aggregate
sentence it crafted in early 2020, which in this case included multiple counts
of conviction and multiple enhancements. (People v. Ramirez (2019)
35 Cal.App.5th 55, 64 [“ ‘When a case is remanded for resentencing by an
appellate court, the trial court is entitled to consider the entire sentencing
scheme’ ”]; see People v. Burbine, supra, 106 Cal.App.4th at pp. 1257–1258
[full resentencing appropriate given the “ ‘interlocking nature’ ” and
“inherently integrated nature” of felony sentencing for a multiple-count
conviction].) We will remand for a full resentencing.

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 III. DISPOSITION
The convictions are affirmed. The sentence is vacated, and the case is
remanded for resentencing. If, on resentencing, the court again imposes the
five-year enhancement for a prior serious felony conviction, the abstract of
judgment should reflect that enhancement was imposed under section 667,
subdivision (a)(1), rather than under section 667.5, subdivision (b).

STREETER, Acting P. J.

WE CONCUR:

BROWN, J.
DESAUTELS, J.*

*Judge of the Superior Court of California, County of Alameda,
assigned by the Chief Justice pursuant to article VI, section 6 of the
California Constitution.

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Trial Court: Superior Court of California, County of Alameda

Trial Judge: Hon. Thomas C. Rogers

Counsel: Law Offices of Shannon Chase and Shannon Chase,
by appointment of the Court of Appeal Under the
First District Appellate Project’s Independent Case System,
for Defendant and Appellant.

Rob Bonta, Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Chief Assistant
Attorney General, Jeffrey M. Laurence, Senior Assistant
Attorney General, Bruce L. Ortega and René A. Chacón,
Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

People v. Jones - A160328