In re Wilson

Filed 1/22/15

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION SEVEN

In re DERRICK LYNN WILSON, B254093

(Los Angeles County on Habeas Corpus. Super. Ct. No. KA028967)

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING on a petition for writ of habeas corpus. Robert Armstrong, Judge. Petition granted.

Michael J. Brennan and Heidi L. Rummel, Post-Conviction Justice Project, University of Southern California Law School, for Petitioner.*

Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Steven D. Matthews and Taylor Nguyen, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.

_______________________________________________________________________ *Elizabeth Little, Certified Law Student, presented oral argument. Petitioner Derrick Lynn Wilson seeks habeas relief asserting, among other contentions, that pursuant to the principles announced in Miller v. Alabama (2012) 567 U.S. ___, 132 S.Ct. 2455 (Miller), the life imprisonment without parole (LWOP) sentence he received in 1996 for a crime he committed when he was…