P. v. Goodman CA4/2
Defendant and appellant Steven Clark Goodman appeals from the trial court’s
denial of his petition under Proposition 47 and Penal Code1
section 1170.18 to reclassify
his felony conviction of petty theft with a prior (§ 484, subd. (a), former § 666, subd. (a))
to misdemeanor petty theft (§ 490.2). On appeal, defendant argues that the trial court
erred in denying his petition because: (1) Proposition 47 eliminated the crime of petty
theft with a prior under amended section 666 for most persons, regardless of the
underlying facts of the offense; (2) the value of the property taken is irrelevant under
amended section 666; (3) to the extent the trial court was required to consider the value of
the property, it erred by using the rental contract amount as the value of the property;
(4) the police report was outside of and contradicted by the record of conviction; (5) the
trial court erred by using the rental contract amount rather than determining the fair
market value of th
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