People v. Lopez CA3

FACTS

We need not recite all of the sordid facts in order to address defendant’s contentions. Suffice it to say, defendant, who turned 39 years old three days after trial in 2012, was convicted of committing the following crimes against seven boys in 2010 and 2011: One count of orally copulating a child under the age of 14 (Pen. Code, § 288a, subd. (c)(1))1 (count I); Two counts of committing lewd acts on a child under the age of 14 (§ 288, subd. (a)) (counts II and XVII); One count of sodomizing a child under the age of 14 (§ 286, subd. (c)(1)) (count

III);

Undesignated references to sections are to the Penal Code.

2 Six counts of exhibiting harmful matter to a minor (§ 288.2, subd. (a)) (counts IV, VIII, XVI, XVIII, XIX, and XX); One count of orally copulating a child under the age of 16 (§ 288a, subd. (b)(2)) (count IX); One count of orally copulating a disabled person (§ 288a, subd. (g)) (count X); Two counts of committing lewd acts on a child under the age of 16 (§ 288, subd. (c)(1)) (counts XI and XIV); One count of sodomizing a child under the age of 16 (§ 286, subd. (b)(2)) (count XII); and One count of sodomizing a disabled person (§ 286, subd. (g)) (count…