P. v. Newton CA5
Jesse Ray Carver Newton, Jr., filed in the trial court a petition for relief pursuant to Proposition 47. The trial court reduced one of his felony convictions to a misdemeanor and resentenced him to a lower aggregate sentence by eliminating the eight-month term it had previously imposed for the Proposition 47 count. The court also structured the new aggregate term as a split sentence; Newton’s original sentence was also a split sentence. In the end, the eight-month reduction in the aggregate term amounted to a two-month reduction in the local custody term and a six-month reduction in the mandatory supervision term that together constituted the original split sentence.
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