Willover

I. INTRODUCTION

In 1999, defendant Norman Willover was sentenced to two consecutive terms of life without the possibility of parole (LWOP) for crimes he committed as a juvenile. In 2014, defendant filed a petition for recall and resentencing pursuant to Penal Code section 1170, subdivision (d)(2). After a hearing, the trial court denied his resentencing petition. On appeal, defendant claims the trial court erroneously denied his petition based solely on the circumstances of his crimes and that the relevant factors weighed in favor of recall and resentencing. For reasons that we will explain, we will affirm the trial court’s order.

II. BACKGROUND

A. The Underlying Offenses

1. Facts

The following summary of defendant’s underlying offenses is taken from this court’s nonpublished opinion (People v. Willover (Oct. 19, 2000, H019899)), issued after he appealed from his convictions.

In December of 1997, defendant, age 17, was living in a residential treatment center in Provo, Utah. One day, he left the treatment center without authorization. He bought a Ruger .22-caliber pistol from a teenager in Pleasant Grove, Utah. He then left for the Monterey area, with the gun in his…