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                COURT OF APPEAL, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

                                                 DIVISION ONE

                                         STATE OF CALIFORNIA

 THE PEOPLE,                                                          D079596

           Plaintiff and Respondent,

           v.                                                         (Super. Ct. No. PLAG3546)

 KEITH L. ROGERS,

           Defendant and Appellant.

         APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of San Diego County,
David M. Gill, Judge. Affirmed.
         Vanessa Place, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for
Defendant and Appellant.
         No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent.
         In 2021, Keith L. Rogers was on parole for a sex offense and was under
GPS supervision. Rogers committed a sexual battery and a petition to revoke
probation was filed. An evidentiary hearing was held on the petition. At the
end of the hearing, the court revoked parole and sentenced Rogers to 76 days
of additional custody.
         Rogers filed a timely notice of appeal.
      Appellate counsel has filed a brief pursuant to People v. Wende (1979)
25 Cal.3d 436 (Wende) indicating counsel has not been able to identify any
arguable issues for reversal on appeal. Counsel asks the court to review the
record for error as mandated by Wende. We offered Rogers the opportunity to
file his own brief on appeal, but he has not responded.
                              STATEMENT OF FACTS
      Appellate counsel has provided an accurate summary of the facts
presented at the evidentiary hearing. We will adopt the statement of facts
from the appellant’s brief.
                                 Prosecution Case
      California Department of Corrections Parole Agent Jose Barrientos was
assigned to the Inland GPS unit supervising sex offenders on GPS
supervision. Rogers is required to wear a GPS monitor and is on a five-year-
period of parole. His parole has been revoked ten times, and Rogers was
sanctioned for 180 days confinement on each occasion.
      On September 7, 2021, Cheyenne T. was sunbathing in a bikini on
Pacific Beach. She felt something lightly touch her butt, turned, and saw a
man with his face very close to her butt. She believed he kissed her butt.
Cheyenne yelled at the man, telling him to leave her alone. He slowly walked
away. She began to leave the beach but decided to stay after people said the
man was no longer around. The man was very tall, short-haired, African
American, wearing baggy clothes and carrying bags. At the hearing,
Cheyenne identified Rogers as the man.
      Cheyenne reported the incident to San Diego Police. She later located
surveillance video from a nearby house and provided this to a detective.
Cheyenne identified Rogers as the person on the video. Later that afternoon,
Cheyenne identified Rogers in a field show up.

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      San Diego Police Officer Jack Ester responded to a radio call regarding
a suspected sexual battery; he was provided a location mapped by an ankle
monitor and given a description of a tall African American male wearing
baggy clothing and carrying a bag. Ester detained Rogers at the location.
                                  Defense Case
      There was no affirmative defense presented.
                                 DISCUSSION
      As we have noted, appellate counsel has filed a Wende brief and asks
the court to review the record for error. To assist the court in its review, and
in compliance with Anders v. California (1967) 386 U.S. 738 (Anders), counsel
has identified the following possible issues that were considered in evaluating
the potential merits of this appeal.
      1. Was Rogers properly placed on parole supervision or should he have
been placed on postrelease community supervision?
      2. Is there sufficient evidence to support the finding that Rogers was in
violation of the conditions of his parole?
      3. Should Rogers’s sexual offender registration requirement be
terminated and removed pursuant to Penal Code section 290, subdivision (d)?
      We have reviewed the entire record as required by Wende and Anders.
We have not discovered any arguable issues for reversal on appeal.
Competent counsel has represented Rogers on this appeal.

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                            DISPOSITION
The judgment is affirmed.

                                          HUFFMAN, Acting P. J.

WE CONCUR:

DATO, J.

DO, J.

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