California Court of Appeal

Defendant's conviction for spousal battery is affirmed over his challenges that 1)Alliance Against Family Violence forms were inadmissible under the business records exception to the hearsay rule, and 2)the trial court erred by denying his request for modification of CALJIC No. 9.35 to specify that corporal injury must be "lawful."

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/13/2005
• Published 01/13/2005

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Matthew Alger, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Fresno, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Mary Jo Graves, Assistant Attorney General, and Charles A. French, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.