Serrano

Filed 10/29/

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT

(Sacramento) ----

THE PEOPLE, C100856

Plaintiff and Respondent, (Super. Ct. No. 97F03702)

v.

ANDRES SERRANO,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Sacramento County, Bunmi O. Awoniyi, Judge. Dismissed.

Francine R. Tone, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Rob Bonta, Attorney General, and Erin Doering, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

1 Defendant Andres Serrano1 seeks to appeal from an order denying a stand-alone postjudgment motion for discovery related to potential violations of the California Racial Justice Act (Act). (Pen. Code,2 § 745, subd. (d).) At issue is whether the trial court’s order is appealable. Although the trial court denied defendant’s motion on the merits, we must first address the threshold question of whether the trial court had jurisdiction to consider the motion in the first instance. We conclude that it did, and that the Act permits a defendant to file a stand-alone…