Filed 4/16/21 P. v. Perkins CA2/4
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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT
DIVISION FOUR
| THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. FRANKLIN PERKINS, Defendant and Appellant. | B306121 Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. BA080757
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APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, James R. Dabney, Judge. Dismissed.
Christopher Love, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent.
In 1994, a jury convicted defendant and appellant Franklin Perkins of second degree murder (Pen. Code, § 187, subd. (a)),[1] and the trial court sentenced him to an indeterminate term of 15 years to life in state prison. In 2020, Perkins filed a petition for resentencing under section 1170.95. The trial court denied the petition, concluding Perkins was ineligible for relief because he was the actual killer. Perkins timely appealed.
Appellate counsel filed a brief identifying no issues and requesting that this court follow the procedures set forth in People v. Serrano (2012) 211 Cal.App.4th 496. The court notified Perkins he had 30 days to file a supplemental brief. Perkins did not file a supplemental brief. This court has no independent duty to review the record for reasonably arguable issues. (People v. Cole (2020) 52 Cal.App.5th 1023, 1039-1040, review granted, Oct. 14, 2020, No. S264278.) We therefore dismiss Perkins’s appeal as abandoned. (Ibid.)
DISPOSITION
The appeal is dismissed.
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CURREY, J.
We concur:
MANELLA, P.J.
COLLINS, J.
[1] All undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code.
