People v. Abdallah
Annotate this CaseDefendant was convicted of possession of methamphetamine while armed with a firearm, possession of a firearm by a felon, and possession of methamphetamine. Defendant was sentenced to an aggregate prison sentence of five years, including a one-year enhancement under Penal Code section 667.5, subdivision (b). The trial court imposed the enhancement because defendant had been released on parole on February 18, 2005 from a conviction he had suffered in 2002, and then had been arrested less than five years later in October 2009 for a new felony, for which he was convicted in 2011. Between defendant's conviction and sentencing in this case, voters enacted Proposition 47, Penal Code section 1170.18, subdivision (b). Pursuant to the new law, the trial court, before it sentenced defendant in this case, recalled his 2011 felony sentence and resentenced him to a misdemeanor on that conviction. The court agreed with defendant that once the trial court resentenced his 2011 conviction as a misdemeanor he no longer qualified for the one-year sentence enhancement for the 2002 conviction. Accordingly, the one-year enhancement is stricken and the judgment affirmed as modified.
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