People v. Degroat CA3

Filed 7/9/15 P. v. Degroat CA3

NOT TO BE PUBLISHED

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT

(Shasta) ----

THE PEOPLE, C076675

Plaintiff and Respondent, (Super. Ct. No. 13F7304)

v.

DANIEL LEE DEGROAT,

Defendant and Appellant.

Defendant Daniel Lee Degroat appeals the trial court’s order denying his motion to withdraw his guilty plea. (Pen. Code, § 1018.)1 He contends the trial court abused its discretion because it failed to recognize that defendant accepted the plea based on ineffective assistance of counsel. Specifically, defendant alleges his trial counsel was

Undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code.

1 deficient in advising him to admit a prior conviction in Oregon as a strike under California law…