Plies

George Irwin Plies, a career robber, raises a single issue on this appeal following his latest robbery conviction: that one of his ad mitted previous felony convictions (for federal bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 2113 (a)) is not a prior felony conviction within the meaning of Penal Code section 667.5, subdivision (b), and the court erred in imposing a one year enhancing consecutive sentence for that conviction.

Plies was charged by amended information with two current felonies and two prior convictions within the meaning of Penal Code section 667.5, subdivision (b).

Before trial, Plies, no stranger to courtroom proceedings of this nature, with the consent of his attorney, after proper advisement, waived his constitutional rights and admitted each of the previous convictions as charged in the following language: “Second prior: And, it is further alleged that said defendant, George Irwin Plies, was on or about September 15, 1969, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California for the County of Fresno, in Case No. F-417-CR was convicted of a felony, to wit, bank robbery in violation of 18 United States Code 2113(a) and served more than one year in…