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INTRODUCTION

A jury convicted defendant and appellant Ricardo Renteria guilty of corporal injury to a spouse/cohabitant/child’s parent (Pen. Code, § 273.5, subd. (a)1), assault with a deadly weapon (§ 245, subd. (a)(1)), and four counts of contempt of court (§ 166, subd. (c)(1)). The jury found true the allegations that defendant personally used a deadly and dangerous weapon in the commission of the corporal injury offense (§ 12022, subd. (b)(1)) and personally inflicted great bodily injury in the commission of the corporal injury and assault offenses (§ 12022.7, subd. (e)). The trial court sentenced defendant to eight years in state prison. On appeal, defendant contends that the trial court erred in admitting expert witness testimony on battered woman’s syndrome because it was irrelevant and more prejudicial than probative, such testimony left the jury with the impression that the victim was unavailable at trial due to defendant’s conduct, and the testimony improperly told the jury that domestic violence victims are truthful. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

The prosecutor called Melissa Renteria,2 the complaining witness in this case. The trial court informed the jury that Melissa was…