California v. Flores
Annotate this CaseAt issue before the Court of Appeal was whether an otherwise qualified person convicted of voluntary manslaughter, as opposed to murder, could invoke the resentencing provision of Senate Bill 1437 (Stats. 2018, ch. 1015.). Defendant Fallon Lupe Flores was charged with murder, but pleaded guilty to the lesser included offense of voluntary manslaughter. Years later, she filed a petition to have her conviction vacated and to be resentenced under the resentencing provision of Senate Bill No. 1437. The trial court denied Flores's petition on grounds that the resentencing provision was available only to qualifying persons who were convicted of murder - not persons who were convicted of voluntary manslaughter. The Court of Appeal agreed with the trial court, and therefore affirmed denial of Flores' petition.
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