People v. McDowell
Annotate this CaseDefendant pled no contest to six felony burglary counts and admitted the truth of allegations that he committed the current offenses while out on bail for another crime and had one prior conviction that qualified as a strike under the Three Strikes law. On appeal, defendant challenged a judgment resentencing him to an overall prison term the same length as his previous, plea-bargained sentence after the trial court granted his motion to reduce two of his several convictions to misdemeanors pursuant to Proposition 47, Penal Code 1170.18, subd. (e). The court held that Proposition 47 permits imposing a new sentence that equals the previous sentence and the trial court did not abuse its discretion by doing so in this case. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
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