California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Neil, B266082 (Cal. App. 2016):
plea . . . [A] defendant cannot admit the sufficiency of the evidence by pleading guilty and then question the evidence by an appeal under section 1237.5 [citation]"]; see People v. Young (2000) 77 Cal.App.4th 827, 829 ["'a challenge to a negotiated sentence imposed as part of a plea bargain is properly viewed as a challenge to the validity of the plea itself' and therefore requires that the defendant 'seek and obtain a probable cause certificate in order to attack the sentence on appeal'"].)
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