People v. Hollywood

Filed 2/28/

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION SIX

THE PEOPLE, 2d Crim. No. B323018 (Super. Ct. No. 1014465) Plaintiff and Respondent, (Santa Barbara County)

v.

JESSE JAMES

HOLLYWOOD,

Defendant and Appellant.

“The fabric of the law will stretch only so far before it will unravel.” (People v. Martin (2018) 26 Cal.App.5th 825, 828.) Appellant seeks to stretch the newly enacted reduced murder penalties to his case. It just will not stretch and the fabric unravels. Leniency for a person who orders his cohorts to murder a 15-year-old child with a machine gun? The child is dead and our answer is, no. Jesse James Hollywood appeals from the trial court’s denial of his petition for resentencing. (Pen. Code, § 1172.6.)1 He was previously convicted of first degree murder with a special

1 All further statutory references are to the Penal Code. circumstance finding that the murder occurred during the commission of a kidnapping. Appellant contends the trial court erred in summarily denying his petition because the record of conviction did not conclusively establish that he…