People v. Jackson CA3

California Court of Appeal·Decided February 27, 2023·No. C095059M·Unpublished

Opinion

Filed 2/27/23 P. v. Jackson CA3 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED

California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule 8.1115(b). This opinion has not been certified for publication or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115.

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT (Sacramento) ----

THE PEOPLE,

Plaintiff and Respondent, C095059

v. (Super. Ct. No. 20FE015094)

ARTIS JACKSON, ORDER MODIFYING OPINION AND DENYING Defendant and Appellant. REHEARING

[NO CHANGE IN JUDGMENT]

THE COURT:

It is ordered that the opinion filed in this case on January 30, 2023, be modified as follows:

1 On page 8, Discussion part II, remove first full paragraph and replace with the following:

Defendant next contends his trial counsel violated defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel because (A) he did not object earlier to P.A.’s in-court identification of defendant, he should have objected to the identification procedure used at trial, and he should have asked the trial court to use an alternative identification procedure; (B) he did not object earlier to P.A.’s testimony about past incidents of defendant breaking into Lisa’s residence in the middle of the night; (C) he did not object to the testimony of a law enforcement officer recounting what she heard others say about the incident; and (D) he did not ask the trial court to instruct the jury it could not infer defendant’s guilt from defendant’s prior bad acts.

On page 10, after the last full paragraph beginning with “In any event,” insert the following new paragraph:

Defendant further claims his trial counsel should have objected to the identification procedure used at trial and should have asked the trial court to use an alternative identification procedure, such as having defendant sit in the audience. (See Moore v. Illinois (1977) 434 U.S. 220, 230, fn. 5 [54 L.Ed.2d 424] [suggesting trial counsel could ask that defendant be seated in audience during identification].) As with the claim that trial counsel should have made a timely lineup request, this ineffective assistance of counsel contention fails because it is not reasonably probable defendant would have received a more favorable result if counsel had requested an alternative identification procedure. (Strickland, supra, 466 U.S. at p. 691.) As noted, Lisa, defendant’s former girlfriend, identified defendant as the assailant in her 911 call.

This modification does not change the judgment.

The petition for rehearing is denied.

2 FOR THE COURT:

/S/ MAURO, Acting P. J.

/S/ KRAUSE, J.

/S/ BOULWARE EURIE, J.

3 Filed 1/30/23 P. v. Jackson CA3 (unmodified opinion) NOT TO BE PUBLISHED California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule 8.1115(b). This opinion has not been certified for publication or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115.

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT (Sacramento) ----

ARTIS JACKSON,

Defendant and Appellant.

Defendant Artis Jackson broke into his former girlfriend’s residence and robbed the former girlfriend’s current boyfriend. A jury convicted him of first degree robbery and other crimes and the trial court sentenced him to 16 years in prison, consisting of the upper term of six years for the robbery and 10 years for personal use of a firearm. Defendant now contends (1) the trial court abused its discretion in admitting some evidence, (2) his trial counsel was ineffective in certain respects, (3) the errors and deficiencies resulted in cumulative prejudice, and (4) recent developments in sentencing law require remand for resentencing. Finding merit in the fourth contention, we will affirm the convictions but vacate the sentence and remand the matter for resentencing.

1 BACKGROUND P.A. was dating Lisa S. P.A. stayed at Lisa’s residence one night and awoke to screaming in the other room. P.A. went into the room where he heard the screaming and saw defendant with a gun. P.A. had never seen defendant before. Defendant told P.A. to get down. P.A. got down on his knees, and defendant took P.A.’s sterling silver necklace. Defendant also hit P.A. in the head with the gun, causing P.A. to bleed. P.A. escaped through a sliding glass door. Defendant also left the residence, and Lisa called 911 and identified defendant, her former boyfriend, as the assailant. The People intended to call Lisa as a witness at the trial to identify defendant. However, she failed to appear for the trial. Nevertheless, the jury convicted defendant of first degree robbery (Pen. Code, §§ 211, 212.5, subd. subd. (a)),1 assault with a firearm (§ 245, subd. (a)(2)), and assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury (§ 245, subd. (a)(4)). As to each count, the jury found defendant personally used a firearm. (§§ 12022.53, subd. (b); 12022.5, subd. (a).) The trial court sentenced defendant to an aggregate term of 16 years in prison. We will provide additional background in the Discussion as relevant to the contentions on appeal. DISCUSSION I Defendant contends the trial court abused its discretion in admitting evidence of (A) Lisa’s 911 call made soon after the incident, (B) Lisa’s statement during the 911 call that defendant had previously kicked in the door, and (C) Deputy Codi Lopez’s recounting of Lisa’s account of the incident.

1 Undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code.

2 “The trial court has broad discretion in decisions relating to the admission of evidence. We review the court’s evidentiary decisions under the deferential abuse of discretion standard. (See, e.g., People v. Thomas (2011) 51 Cal.4th 449, 488; see also Evid. Code, § 352.) Evidence is relevant if it has any tendency in reason to prove or disprove a disputed fact. (Evid. Code, § 210.)” (People v. Loza (2012) 207 Cal.App.4th 332, 345.) The appellant bears the burden of showing both abuse of discretion in admission of the evidence and prejudice resulting from admission. (People v. Albarran (2007) 149 Cal.App.4th 214, 225 (Albarran); Cal. Const., art. VI, § 13.) A According to defendant, it was an abuse of discretion to admit evidence of the 911 call made by Lisa S. as a spontaneous statement under Evidence Code section 1240. “Evidence Code section 1240 provides that ‘[e]vidence of a statement is not made inadmissible by the hearsay rule if the statement’ ‘[p]urports to narrate, describe, or explain an act, condition, or event perceived by the declarant’ and ‘[w]as made spontaneously while the declarant was under the stress of excitement caused by such perception.’ ‘[T]he basis for the circumstantial trustworthiness of spontaneous utterances is that in the stress of nervous excitement, the reflective faculties may be stilled and the utterance may become the instinctive and uninhibited expression of the speaker’s actual impressions and belief.’ [Citation.] [¶] ‘To be admissible, “(1) there must be some occurrence startling enough to produce . . . nervous excitement and render the utterance spontaneous and unreflecting; (2) the utterance must have been before there has been time to contrive and misrepresent, i.e., while the nervous excitement may be supposed still to dominate and the reflective powers to be yet in abeyance; and (3) the utterance must relate to the circumstance of the occurrence preceding it.” ’ ” (People v. Lynch (2010) 50 Cal.4th 693, 751-752 (Lynch), abrogated on other grounds by People v. McKinnon (2011) 52 Cal.4th 610.)

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