California Court of Appeal

Conviction and sentence for corporal injury to a cohabitant, assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury, and disabling a telephone line is affirmed over claims that: 1) defendant cannot be convicted of three violations of Penal Code section 273.5; 2) allowing evidence of an out of court statement of a previous victim violated his right to confrontation and cross-examination; and 3) there was insufficient evidence to convict him of disabling a utility line as there was no evidence his conduct was "unlawful." However, sentence is modified to provide defendant 36 days of presentence custody credit.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/22/2007
• Published 05/22/2007

Judges

• PREMO, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Catherine A. Rivlin, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Gregg E. Zywicke, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff/Respondent, the People., Under appointment by the Court of Appeal JeffreyA. Glick, for Defendant/Appellant, Romundo Johnson.