P. v. Ybarra
Defendant Armando Ybarra appeals from his 2009 25-years-to-life sentence under the Three Strikes Law. Ybarra's second strike was from a 1998 conviction after a guilty plea, in which Ybarra pled guilty to two non-strike charges. Subsequently, the Legislature expanded the list of strike charges to include one of the charges to which Ybarra had pled guilty in 1998. In 2009, the trial court imposed the 25-years-to-life sentence after denying Ybarra's Motion for Specific Performance of Prior Plea Bargain. Ybarra argues that this was error. As explained below, we conclude that the court did not err when it denied Ybarra's motion and sentenced him as a third-striker.
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