Crockett

Filed 2/19/

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT

(Shasta) ----

THE PEOPLE, C074342

Plaintiff and Respondent, (Super. Ct. No. 08F06372)

v.

LEON WILSON CROCKETT,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from order denying resentencing of the Superior Court of Shasta County, Stephen H. Baker, Judge. Affirmed.

Susan K. Shaler, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Catherine Chatman and Michael Dolida, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent. In January 2013, defendant Leon Wilson Crockett filed a petition pursuant to Penal Code section 1170.1261to recall his indeterminate life sentence. The statute,

1 Undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code.

1 enacted as part of a November 2012 initiative measure, provides retrospective relief under narrow criteria from indeterminate life sentences imposed for recidivism. He alleged that he was eligible for resentencing because his February 2009 commitment…