People v. Ryan CA3

I. BACKGROUND

In a complaint, defendant was charged with assaulting N.J. with a deadly weapon and inflicting corporal injury on L.J., a cohabitant or person in a dating relationship with defendant. (Pen. Code,1 §§ 245, subd. (a)(1), 273.5, subd. (a).) It also alleged defendant personally inflicted great bodily injury on N.J. Briefly, N.J. learned defendant had punched defendant’s girlfriend, L.J., in the face. When N.J. confronted defendant about this, the two got into a fight and defendant stabbed N.J. three times causing him to be hospitalized. Pursuant to a plea agreement, defendant pleaded no contest to assault with a deadly weapon and inflicting corporal injury on a cohabitant or person in a dating relationship. (§§ 245, subd. (a)(1), 273.5, subd. (a).) The agreement called for him to be placed on probation for four years. As agreed, the trial court granted defendant formal probation for four years and required that he enroll in a batterer’s treatment program. In June 2019, the probation department filed a petition to revoke defendant’s probation because he failed to report to probation, failed to attend a batterer’s treatment program, and failed to keep probation advised of…