EPSTEIN, P.J.
This is one of many appeals raising issues concerning the effect of trial court error in basing an upper term sentence, in part, on non-recidivist facts not submitted to a jury or admitted by the defendant. Following United States Supreme Court precedent, we conclude that such error is tested under the harmless beyond a reasonable doubt standard of Chapman v. California (1967)
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