P. v. Sandefur CA1/5
Appellant Jason I. Sandefur was sentenced to prison for an aggregate term of 16 years after a jury convicted him of two counts of assault with a deadly weapon and one count of resisting arrest, the court found true recidivist allegations, and appellant pled guilty to a single count of soliciting the murder of one of the victims in the original case. In this appeal, appellant originally argued the court should have granted his request for self-representation and should have stricken both of his two prior convictions under the “Three Strikes” law, rather than the one it actually struck. He also argued the trial court erred in setting direct victim restitution. We affirmed the judgment.
The California Supreme Court has directed us to reconsider the matter in light of the advent of Senate Bill 1393, which amends section 667 and section 1385 such that a trial court has discretion to strike a prior serious felony conviction under section 1385. We therefore vacate our earlier deci
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