People v. Olaez CA4/1

INTRODUCTION

A jury found appellant Daniel Nestor Olaez guilty of committing thirteen sex crimes against his girlfriend’s two minor daughters over the span of three years. The trial court sentenced Olaez to an aggregate state prison term of 275 years to life, plus three years. On appeal from the judgment of conviction, Olaez raises the following claims of error: (1) insufficient evidence supported the jury’s factual findings that he used duress to commit the sex acts giving rise to nine of his convictions; (2) the trial court erred by admitting into evidence any expert testimony on child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome (CSAAS), and specifically, expert testimony on the percentage of children who wait until adulthood to report sexual abuse; (3) his constitutional right to due process was violated because the prosecution did not provide him with fair notice that it intended to seek prison terms of 25-years-to-life for eleven of his offenses; and (4) his sentence constituted cruel and/or unusual punishment in violation of the federal and state constitutions. We reject Olaez’s arguments, all of which are forfeited, meritless, or both. Therefore, we affirm the judgment.…