People v. Berg

*423Opinion

AARON, J.

I

INTRODUCTION

In 1997, the trial court sentenced Jason A. Berg to life without the possibility of parole (TWOP) for committing a first degree murder with special circumstances when he was 17 years old. (See Pen. Code,1 § 190.5, subd. (b) [providing that the penalty for a first degree murder with special circumstances for a person “16 years of age or older and under the age of 18 years at the time of the commission of the crime, shall be confinement in the state prison for life without the possibility of parole or, at the discretion of the court, 25 years to life”].)

Berg filed a…