Wright

MEMORANDUM *

Pursuant to a plea agreement, petitioner Donald Wayne Wright pleaded no contest to numerous theft, burglary, and possession charges. Neither the trial court nor his attorney advised Wright that he would be required to serve a mandatory period of parole after completing his prison sentence. After learning of the parole consequences of his plea, Wright moved to withdraw his no contest plea on the ground that he did not make his decision while fully aware of the consequences of his plea. The trial court denied his motion.

Pursuant to his plea agreement covering three separate cases, Wright pled no contest to single counts of possession of stolen property, vehicle theft, second degree burglary, attempted vehicle theft, evading a police officer, and possession of methamphetamine for purposes of sale, and to two counts of first degree burglary. Also pursuant to the agreement, Wright admitted allegations that he committed the offenses charged in the first case while released on bail (a violation of California Penal Code § 12022.1) and that he had suffered three *720 felony convictions, each of which qualified both as a strike and as a prior serious conviction under…