People v. Williams

*901 Opinion

Defendant Robert N. Williams challenges the court’s imposition of a negotiated aggregate prison sentence of five years four months following his guilty plea in the present case and the revocation of his probation in a prior case. In 2003, after Williams pleaded guilty in People v. Williams (Super. Ct. San Diego County, 2003, No. SCD169274) (the drug case) to one felony count of selling a controlled substance, and after he admitted he had suffered a prior “Three Strikes” law conviction (or strike), the court sentenced him to five years in prison, but suspended execution of that sentence and placed him on formal probation. In mid-2005, during his probation, Williams was charged in the present case—San Diego County Superior Court case No. SCD192215 (the attempted pimping case)—with two new offenses: pimping and soliciting an act of prostitution. The court revoked Williams’s probation following an evidentiary hearing. In September of that year, the court lifted the stay of execution of the five-year prison sentence imposed in the drug case, sentenced Williams to four years in state prison 1 and remanded him to the custody of the sheriff pending conclusion of this…