People v. Phillips CA6

Filed 11/26/25 P. v. Phillips CA6

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SIXTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

THE PEOPLE, H052212, H052225 (Santa Clara County Plaintiff and Respondent, Super. Ct. Nos. C2405946 &

C2402564)

v.

ANTHONY PHILLIPS,

Defendant and Appellant.

In 2023, defendant Anthony Phillips pleaded no contest to three sexual offenses and was sentenced to 19 years in state prison. In 2024, Phillips, on his own behalf, filed postjudgment motions in the trial court in two separately docketed cases based on the California Racial Justice Act of 2020 (Stats. 2020, ch. 317, § 3.5; Pen. Code,1 § 745) (hereafter RJA or Act). Phillips subsequently initiated two appeals, which we consider together. One of Phillips’s appeals arises from a case in which…