People v. Ramirez CA4/2

I. INTRODUCTION

Defendant, Pedro Paredes Ramirez, was convicted of nine offenses arising out of

six different incidents involving different victims. These offenses included three counts

of committing a lewd act on a child under the age of 14 years (Pen. Code,1 § 288,

subd. (a); counts 2, 3, 7); one count of committing a lewd act on a child under the age of

14 years by means of force, violence, duress, or menace (§ 288, subd. (b)(1); count 9);

and one count of first degree burglary of an inhabited dwelling house (§§ 459, 462, subd.

(a); count 4). The jury also found true special circumstance allegations pursuant to

section 667.61 (one strike law) that counts 2, 3, 7, and 9 were committed during the

commission of a burglary (§ 667.61, subd. (e)(2)), as well as during the commission of a

first degree burglary with the intent to commit a specified sex offense against a victim

under the age of 14 years (§ 667.61, subds. (c), (d)(4)). Defendant’s sentence included a

term of life in prison without the possibility of parole pursuant to section 667.61,

subdivision (j)(1), on count 9; three terms of 25 years to life pursuant to section 667.61,

subdivision (j)(2), on counts 2,…