Nixon

BACKGROUND

In 2018, defendant pleaded no contest to carrying a concealed weapon in a vehicle, carrying a loaded firearm, perjury, and two misdemeanor counts of unlawfully possessing ammunition. The trial court sentenced defendant to a split sentence of five years four months, with the first four months to be served in the county jail and the concluding five years to be served on mandatory supervision. This court affirmed the

1 The People move this court to take judicial notice of the fact that defendant was discharged from postrelease supervision on January 17, 2025. We grant the motion. (See In re Arroyo (2019) 37 Cal.App.5th 727, 730, fn. 2 [taking judicial notice of Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation records showing an inmate’s parole eligibility date for mootness purposes].) We decline, however, the People’s invitation to dismiss this appeal as moot. As the People recognize, we have discretion to “decide an appeal, even if moot, to address issues of broad public interest that are likely to recur while evading review.” For example, in People v. Johnson (2018) 29 Cal.App.5th 1041, the appellate court declined to dismiss a “technically moot” appeal challenging the…