P. v. Alvarez
Pursuant to a plea agreement, appellant, Luis Enrique Alvarez, on April 9, 2012, pleaded no contest to one count of continuous sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14 (Pen. Code, § 288.5; count 5) and three counts of committing a lewd or lascivious act against a child under the age of 14 (Pen. Code, § 288, subd. (a), counts 6, 8, 9). One of the terms of the plea agreement was that appellant would be sentenced to 22 years in prison. On June 6, 2012, the court imposed the agreed-upon 22-year prison term, calculated as follows: on count 5, the upper term of 16 years, plus two years on each of the remaining counts.
Appellant filed a timely notice of appeal. Insofar as the record reveals, appellant did not request, and the court did not issue, a certificate of probable cause (Pen. Code, § 1237.5).[1]
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.
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