No error in trial court declining to apply lower term presumption (PC 1170(b)(6)(A)) despite probation report listing defendant’s childhood trauma as a mitigating factor. The defendant initially denied in a probation interview that the early loss of both parents was traumatic. This plus the absence of evidence connecting any trauma to the offense that he committed at age 36 sufficiently supported the trial court’s determination that PC 1170(b)(6)(A) was inapplicable.

The full opinion is available on the court’s website here: https://www4.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/E084894.PDF