P. v. Aceves
On appeal, defendant Ralph Aceves complains that the trial court erred by summarily denying his requests at sentencing to withdraw his guilty plea and for substitute appointed counsel. Pursuant to a previously accepted court offer, the court sentenced defendant, then age 78, to 13 years in prison on six counts of aggravated lewd touching of a child under 14 years of age (Pen. Code, 288, subd. (b)(1)) between March 1989 and December 1993, with an admitted prior rape conviction. For the reasons stated below, Court remand for a hearing on defendants request for substitute counsel after concluding that defendant was not required to obtain a certificate of probable cause.
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