P. v. Flaherty CA4/2
A jury found defendant and appellant Ryan Patrick Flaherty guilty of unlawfully driving or taking a vehicle, with a prior vehicle theft conviction (Pen. Code, § 666.5, subd. (a), Veh. Code, § 10851, count 1), and receiving, withholding, or concealing a stolen vehicle from its owner, with a prior vehicle theft conviction (Pen. Code, §§ 666.5, subd. (a), 496d, subd. (a), count 2). In a bifurcated proceeding, the trial court found true that defendant had served four prior prison terms (§ 667.5, subd. (b)) and that defendant had sustained one prior strike conviction (Pen. Code, §§ 667, subds. (c), (e)(1), 1170.12, subd. (c)(1)). Defendant was sentenced to a total term of 10 years in state prison.
Subsequently, California voters enacted Proposition 47, the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, which among other things established a procedure for specified classes of offenders to have their felony convictions reduced to misdemeanors and be resentenced accordingly. (Pen. Code, § 117
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