P. v. Lewis
In 2004, defendant Virgil Bud Lewis was convicted of spousal abuse and placed on three years probation. In 2007, he pled no contest to a charge of child abuse, but later attempted to withdraw his plea. The trial court found defendant in violation of probation. On appeal, he contends that the trial court should not have found him in violation of probation because he should have been allowed to withdraw his plea.
As defendant himself concedes, his entire argument in this case hinges on the success of his argument in his related case, F053683, in which he maintained that he should have been allowed to withdraw his plea. Because we found in that case that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying defendants motion to withdraw his plea, we subsequently conclude in this case that the trial courts finding that defendant violated probation was proper.
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