People v. Valle CA1/5

Filed 12/20/21 P. v. Valle CA1/

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION FIVE

THE PEOPLE,

Plaintiff and Respondent, A162298 v. RAUL ANTONIO VALLE, (Marin County Defendant and Appellant. Super. Ct. No. SC039946A)

Defendant Raul Antonio Valle and his former codefendant Cruz Alberto Mendoza were convicted in 1994 of robbery-burglary special-circumstance murder. Defendant was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole, a judgment affirmed on appeal up to the California Supreme Court. (See People v. Mendoza (2000) 23 Cal.4th 896, 900 (Mendoza).) In 2020, defendant petitioned for relief under newly enacted Penal Code section 1170.95,1 a provision allowing a…