California Court of Appeal

Appeal of a conviction based on defendant's guilty plea to failure to register as a sex offender and his admission of a prior serious felony conviction is dismissed where: 1) defendant's argument that his sentence should be set aside because he was not arraigned on the sentence enhancement allegation when the trial court amended the information to conform to his plea is barred for failure to secure a certificate of probable cause; 2) defendant's claim that the trial court erred in failing to suspend proceedings in order to have his mental competency assessed is barred for defendant's failure to obtain a certificate of probable cause; and 3) defendant's federal due process and equal protection rights were not violated by requiring him to request trial counsel's assistance with filing a notice of appeal and request for a certificate of probable cause.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/09/2009
• Published 06/09/2009

Judges

• SIMS, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Ronald Richard Boyer, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette and Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorneys General, Stephen G. Herndon, Alison Elle Aleman and Ivan P. Marrs, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.