P. v. Haynes CA4/3
A jury convicted Luther Pete Haynes of felony child molestation (Pen. Code, § 647.6, subd. (c)(2); all further statutory references are to this code unless noted). In a bifurcated proceeding, the trial court also found Haynes’s two prior convictions for lewd and lascivious conduct with children under the age of 14 (§ 288, subd. (a)) constituted serious and violent crimes under the “Three Strikes” law (§§ 667, subds. (b)-(i); 1170, subds. (a)-(d)). Consequently, the court sentenced Haynes under the Three Strikes law to an indeterminate term of 25 years to life in prison. Haynes contends the trial court’s failure to grant his pretrial motion to dismiss the child molestation charge violated his right to a speedy trial and due process. He also argues the court erred in a pretrial hearing by failing to preclude the prosecutor from offering evidence under Evidence Code section 1108 of his two prior child sex offenses. As we explain, these challenges to his conviction fail, a
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