P. v. Asatryan
Filed 8/15/06 P. v. Asatryan CA2/4
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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT
DIVISION FOUR
| THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ARUTYAN ASATRYAN, Defendant and Appellant. | B180774 (Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. LA043622) |
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court for Los Angeles County, John S. Fisher, Judge. Affirmed as Modified.
Trutanich & Michel, Carmen A. Trutanich, C.D. Michel, and Lynda J. Westlund for Defendant and Appellant.
Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Margaret E. Maxwell and William H. Shin, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
Defendant and appellant Arutyan Asatryan appeals from a judgment sentencing him to nine years in state prison after a jury found him guilty of assault with a firearm (Pen. Code, § 245, subd. (a)(2))[1] and assault with a semiautomatic firearm (§ 245, subd. (b)), and found to be true allegations that he personally used a firearm in the commission of those offenses (§ 12022.5, subds. (a), (d)). He contends on appeal that he received ineffective assistance of counsel and that the trial court abused its discretion by denying his motion for a new trial. We disagree. We modify the judgment to direct preparation of a corrected abstract of judgment to conform to the sentence imposed (see fn. 7, infra) but otherwise affirm the judgment.
BACKGROUND
In the early evening of July 18, 2003, 15-year-old Edgar Siles was playing with friends and neighbors outside his home on Bessemer Street in Van Nuys. He saw a beige or â€
