P. v. Bacca
Filed 5/8/06 P. v. Bacca CA4/2
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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT
DIVISION TWO
THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. GEORGE RUPERT BACCA, Defendant and Appellant. | E036784 (Super.Ct.No. INF043637) OPINION |
APPEAL from the Superior Court of Riverside County. Thomas N. Douglass, Jr., Judge. Affirmed.
Michael B. McPartland, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and James D. Dutton, and Scott C. Taylor, Supervising Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent
1. Introduction
Defendant and appellant George Rupert Bacca appeals his conviction of one count of failure to register as a sex offender. (Pen. Code, § 290, subd. (g)(2).) He was sentenced as a third striker for this conviction. (Pen. Code, §§ 667, subds. (b)-(i), 1170.12.)
Defendant contends that the court erred in admitting his ex-wife's statements in alleged violation of the marital privilege, that the court abused its discretion in declining to dismiss an alleged strike prior, and that the punishment imposed under the â€
