People v. Ochoa-Magana

Opinion by

Judge NIETO.

Defendant, Carlos Ochoa-Magana, appeals the trial court's order denying his Crim. P. 35(c) motion seeking post-conviction relief. We affirm.

Defendant, who speaks Spanish, was represented by a deputy public defender. Because the deputy public defender did not speak Spanish, she used a bilingual investigator from her office as a translator when meeting with defendant outside the courtroom.

Pursuant to a plea bargain in which the prosecution agreed to dismiss other charges, defendant agreed to plead guilty to one count of unlawful possession of a schedule II controlled…