Certified for Partial Publication.
OPINION
VARTABEDIAN, Acting P.J.
Defendant Jason Robert Ruiz was convicted of two counts of robbery and one count of attempted robbery and was sentenced to an 80-year-to-life term in prison. He appeals, claiming (1) his absence from the trial requires reversal; (2) an aggregate term approach should have been used to calculate his minimum sentence under the three strikes law
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