People v. Williams CA3

BACKGROUND

In 2015, a jury found defendant guilty of inflicting corporal injury resulting in a traumatic condition (§ 273.5, subd. (a)) and battery causing serious bodily injury (§ 243, subd. (d)). As to each offense, the jury found that defendant personally inflicted great bodily injury. (§ 12022.7, subd. (e).) The trial court found that defendant had a prior strike conviction and a prior serious felony conviction (§ 667, subd. (a)) and had served a prior prison term (former § 667.5, subd. (b)). The trial court denied defendant’s Romero2 motion and sentenced him to an aggregate 19 years in prison, consisting of the following: eight years for inflicting corporal injury, five years for the associated great bodily injury enhancement, five years for the prior serious felony conviction, and one year for the prior prison term. Pursuant to section 654, the trial court imposed but stayed sentence on the battery conviction and the associated great bodily injury enhancement. It awarded defendant 537 days of presentence credit (467 days actual and 70 days conduct). In 2023, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation identified defendant as an individual eligible for resentencing…