P. v. Vega
Pursuant to a plea agreement, appellant Gabriel Hiram Vega pled no contest to felony stalking (Pen. Code, 646.9, subd. (a)). The court suspended imposition of sentence, placed appellant on three years probation and ordered that he be confined in county jail for the first year of his probationary period. Appellant filed a timely notice of appeal in which he requested a certificate of probable cause (Pen. Code, 127.5). The court denied that request.
Appellants appointed appellate counsel has filed an opening brief which summarizes the pertinent facts, with citations to the record, raises no issues, and asks that this court independently review the record. (Peoplev.Wende (1979) 25 Cal.3d 436.) Appellant, in response to this courts invitation to submit supplemental briefing, has himself submitted briefs in which he argues, as best we can determine, that (1) he did not enter his no contest plea freely and voluntarily and was therefore denied his constitutional right to a jury trial, and (2) the judge who presided over the entry-of-plea and sentencing proceedings was biased against him and erroneously failed to disqualify himself.
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