P. v. Roberts CA1/2
In May of 2015, Jane Doe, who was then almost 15 years old, began living with defendant Roger Roberts, whom she believed to be her father. Over the next several months, Roberts repeatedly had sex with Doe and provided her with methamphetamine. A jury found Roberts guilty of multiple counts of unlawful sexual intercourse and furnishing a controlled substance to a minor. Because Roberts had two previous convictions for lewd and lascivious acts with children under the age of 14, he was sentenced as a third-strike offender to an aggregate term of 362 years to life. On appeal, he contends that the trial court erred in admitting evidence of his prior convictions, that his sentence constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment, and that the prosecution failed to properly plead that he was ineligible for second-strike sentencing because of his prior convictions. We affirm.
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