STATE OF ARIZONA v. MARISA CERVANTES
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IN THE ARIZONA COURT OF APPEALS DIVISION TWO THE STATE OF ARIZONA, Appellee, v. MARISA R. CERVANTES, Appellant. No. 2 CA-CR 2016-0090 Filed October 3, 2016 THIS DECISION DOES NOT CREATE LEGAL PRECEDENT AND MAY NOT BE CITED EXCEPT AS AUTHORIZED BY APPLICABLE RULES. NOT FOR PUBLICATION See Ariz. R. Sup. Ct. 111(c)(1); Ariz. R. Crim. P. 31.24. Appeal from the Superior Court in Pima County No. CR20151000001 The Honorable Richard D. Nichols, Judge AFFIRMED COUNSEL Dean Brault, Pima County Legal Defender By Joy Athena, Assistant Legal Defender, Tucson Counsel for Appellant STATE v. CERVANTES Decision of the Court MEMORANDUM DECISION Presiding Judge Vásquez authored the decision of the Court, in which Chief Judge Eckerstrom and Judge Howard concurred. V Á S Q U E Z, Presiding Judge: ¶1 After a jury trial, appellant Marisa R. Cervantes was convicted of transportation of a dangerous drug for sale. The trial court sentenced her to a minimum prison term of five years. ¶2 Counsel has filed a brief in compliance with Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), and State v. Clark, 196 Ariz. 530, 2 P.3d 89 (App. 1999), asserting she has reviewed the record but found no arguably meritorious issue to raise on appeal. Consistent with Clark, 196 Ariz. 530, ¶ 32, 2 P.3d at 97, she has provided “a detailed factual and procedural history of the case with citations to the record” and asks this court to search the record for error. Cervantes has not filed a supplemental pro se brief. ¶3 The evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to sustaining Cervantes’s conviction, see State v. Tamplin, 195 Ariz. 246, ¶ 2, 986 P.2d 914, 914 (App. 1999), was sufficient to support the jury’s verdict. See A.R.S. § 13–3407(A)(7). A Pima County Sheriff’s detective stopped Cervantes’s vehicle, which she was driving in the emergency lane of I-10 with hazard lights on. The detective noticed the odor of burned marijuana while speaking with Cervantes, and she consented to a search of the vehicle, which yielded two packages of methamphetamine, each weighing approximately fifty-five grams. After Cervantes was advised of her rights pursuant to Miranda, 1 she told the detective she knew the methamphetamine was in the back seat of her car. 1Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966). 2 STATE v. CERVANTES Decision of the Court ¶4 We further conclude the sentence imposed was authorized by statute and imposed properly. See A.R.S. § 13– 3407(A)(7) and (E). In our examination of the record, we have found no reversible error and no arguable issue warranting further appellate review. See Anders, 386 U.S. at 744. Accordingly, we affirm Cervantes’s conviction and sentence. 3
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