Hardin

Filed 10/18/

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION SEVEN

THE PEOPLE, B315434

Plaintiff and Respondent, (Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. A893110) v.

TONY HARDIN,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Juan C. Dominguez, Judge. Reversed and remanded with directions. William L. Heyman, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Rob Bonta, Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Susan Sullivan Pithey, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Noah P. Hill, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Nima Razfar, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent. ________________________ An individual convicted of a controlling offense committed before the person was 18 years old and for which the sentence is life without the possibility of parole is eligible for release on parole at a youth offender parole hearing at the beginning of the 25th year of incarceration. (Pen. Code, § 3051, subd. (b)(4).)1 Similarly, with several exceptions, an individual convicted of a…