Lopez

Discussion are to be published); and (3) all numbered subheadings. Xavier Becerra and Rob Bonta, Attorneys General, Lance E. Winters, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Louis M. Vasquez, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Lewis A. Martinez, Jennifer Oleska, and Ian Whitney, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent. __________________________

INTRODUCTION

Jose Antonio Lopez fled to Mexico after his two step- granddaughters accused him of sexually abusing them. Eight years later Lopez was arrested in California. A jury convicted Lopez on two counts of continuous sexual abuse of a child—one for each step-granddaughter—and the trial court sentenced him to two consecutive terms of 15 years to life. Lopez contends that the delay in prosecution violated his rights to a speedy trial, that substantial evidence did not support either conviction, and that the court did not understand it had discretion to impose concurrent sentences on the two convictions. In the unpublished portion of the opinion, we conclude that the trial court did not violate Lopez’s speedy trial rights and that substantial evidence supported his…