People v. Watts

Opinion

GOMES, J. —

Pursuant to a plea agreement, appellant David Wayne Watts, Jr., pied no contest to being a felon in possession of a firearm (Pen. Code, § 12021, subd. (a)(1)). He also admitted allegations that on April 21, 2000, he suffered a conviction of violating section 12031, subdivision (a)(2)(C) (section 12031(a)(2)(C)) and that he served a prior prison term for that conviction within the meaning of section 667.5, subdivision (b). The agreement included a five-year lid on Watts’s prison term. Watts reserved the right to argue at sentencing, and indeed argued at sentencing, that his…