P. v. Blake CA6
Defendant Shawncey Blake appeals from an order denying his petition to have his Vehicle Code section 10851 conviction resentenced as a misdemeanor pursuant to Proposition 47.
In 2014, voters approved Proposition 47, the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act. (People v. Page (2017) 3 Cal.5th 1175, 1179 (Page).) Proposition 47 “reduced the punishment for certain theft- and drug-related offenses, making them punishable as misdemeanors rather than felonies.” (Page, at p. 1179.) Proposition 47 added Penal Code section 490.2, which provides that “obtaining any property by theft,” where the value of the property taken is $950 or less, is petty theft and shall generally be punished as a misdemeanor. (Pen. Code, § 490.2, subd. (a).) Thus, a Vehicle Code section 10851 conviction may be resentenced to a misdemeanor “if the vehicle was worth $950 or less and the sentence was imposed for theft of the vehicle.” (Page, at p. 1187.) In addition, Proposition 47 added Penal Code sec
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