P. v. Velasquez CA1/1
In 2016, a jury convicted defendant Jose Velasquez of a number of sexual assault crimes, including forcible rape and forcible sodomy, committed during a 2000 residential burglary and assault. The jury also found true several enhancement allegations.
In an unpublished opinion (People v. Velasquez (Oct. 18, 2018) A149205 [nonpub. opn.] ), we ruled Proposition 57 applied retroactively to defendant and he was entitled to a juvenile transfer hearing. We therefore conditionally reversed his convictions and remanded for the trial court to hold a transfer hearing. In that appeal, we also rejected defendant’s claim that his state and federal speedy trial rights had been violated because the Contra Costa District Attorney waited to serve the 2005 warrant for his arrest until 2014, when defendant completed a Washington State prison sentence for a 2001 rape in that state.
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