P. v. Coates
Filed 6/27/06 P. v. Coates CA2/2
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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT
DIVISION TWO
| THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. LAVAL COATES, Defendant and Appellant. | B186257 (Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. LA048218) |
THE COURT:*
Laval Coates (defendant) appeals from the judgment entered following a jury trial resulting in his conviction of petty theft with a prior conviction. (Pen. Code, §§ 666, 484, subd. (a).)[1] In bifurcated proceedings, the trial court found that he had two prior convictions qualifying him for sentencing pursuant to the three strikes law (§§ 667, subds. (b)-(i), 1170.12) and that he had served two separate prison terms (§ 667.5, subd. (b)). At sentencing, the trial court struck one of the three strikes prior convictions, and he was sentenced to a doubled middle term of two years, or four years, in state prison.
On January 23, 2006, defendant filed a handprinted letter in which he (1) asks this court to comb the record for â€
