People v. Castaneda CA5

INTRODUCTION

Appellant/defendant Joseph Nash Castaneda pleaded no contest to two counts of second degree vehicular burglary (Pen. Code, §§ 459/460, subd. (b)) and was sentenced to three years in prison pursuant to a negotiated disposition. His appellate counsel has filed a brief which summarizes the facts with citations to the record, raises no issues, and asks this court to independently review the record. (People v. Wende (1979) 25 Cal.3d 436 (Wende).) We affirm.

FACTS

On February 9, 2013, defendant’s girlfriend had a telephone conversation with her former boyfriend, and it turned into an argument about child custody. After the call, she told defendant about it and he became angry. Defendant said he was going to settle everything and told her to drive him to the former boyfriend’s house. When they arrived, defendant grabbed a hammer from his girlfriend’s van and smashed the windows of her former boyfriend’s SUV. He also slashed all the tires with a knife and stole property from inside the vehicle. Defendant was still angry and ran across the street and broke the window of a nearby truck, apparently unrelated to the former boyfriend. He stole a stereo from the truck’s console.…