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Filed 4/14/14 P. v. Andrews CA5

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           IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
                                     FIFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

THE PEOPLE,

         Plaintiff and Respondent,                                                     F067067

                   v.                                                    (Super. Ct. No. 13CM0636)

WILLIAM ANDREWS, JR.,                                                                OPINION

         Defendant and Appellant.

                                                   THE COURT*
         APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Kings County. Donna L.
Tarter, Judge.
         Gregory Marshall, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and
Appellant.
         Office of the State Attorney General, Sacramento, California, for Plaintiff and
Respondent.

                                                        -ooOoo-

*        Before Gomes, Acting P.J., Franson, J., and Peña, J.
          Appellant, William Andrews, Jr., pursuant to a plea agreement, pleaded no contest
to transportation of methamphetamine (Health & Saf. Code, § 11379, subd. (a)), and
admitted a “strike” allegation.1 Also pursuant to the plea agreement, the court dismissed
a charge of bringing a controlled substance into a jail (Pen. Code, § 4573), allegations
that appellant had suffered two prior drug possession convictions (Health & Saf. Code,
§ 11370.2, subd. (c)), and a second strike allegation.
          The court imposed a prison term of six years, consisting of the three-year midterm
on the instant conviction, doubled pursuant to the three strikes law (Pen. Code, §§ 667,
subd. (e)(1); 1170.12, subd. (c)(1)).
          Insofar as the record reveals, appellant did not request, and the court did not issue,
a certificate of probable cause (Pen. Code, § 1237.5).
          Appellant’s appointed appellate counsel has filed an opening brief which
summarizes the pertinent facts, with citations to the record, raises no issues, and asks that
this court independently review the record. (People v. Wende (1979) 25 Cal.3d. 436.)
Appellant has not responded to this court’s invitation to submit additional briefing. We
affirm.
                                             FACTS
          The prosecutor stated the following as the factual basis for appellant’s plea: “… if
this case proceeded to trial the People would call witnesses to testify that on or about
February 18[,] [2013,] the defendant did unlawfully transport a usable amount of
methamphetamine, that was here in Kings County. And previously he had been

1       We use the term “strike” as a synonym for “prior felony conviction” within the
meaning of the “three strikes” law (Pen. Code, §§ 667, subds. (b)-(i); 1170.12), i.e., a
prior felony conviction or juvenile adjudication that subjects a defendant to the increased
punishment specified in the three strikes law.

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convicted on February 2nd of 1988 of Penal Code section 211 [robbery], Kings County
Superior Court case number 8851.”
                                      DISCUSSION
       Following independent review of the record, we have concluded that no
reasonably arguable legal or factual issues exist.
                                      DISPOSITION
       The judgment is affirmed.

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