California Court of Appeal

A conviction on charges of domestic battery with corporal injury and misdemeanor assault is affirmed over claims that the trial court: 1) abused its discretion in allowing the jury to hear evidence he had engaged in a prior, uncharged incident of domestic violence; and 2) erred by following California Supreme Court precedent, in People v. Black (2005) 35 Cal.4th 1238, in its application of California's determinate sentencing law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/21/2007
• Published 06/21/2007

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Gerald J. Miller, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Los Angeles, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Mary Jo Graves, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Gil Gonzalez and Theodore M. Cropley, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.