People v. Logan CA3

BACKGROUND

The information charged defendant with two felony counts of inflicting corporal injury resulting in a traumatic condition upon someone with whom defendant had a dating relationship. (Pen. Code, § 273.5, subd. (a).)1 The information also charged defendant with two misdemeanor counts of violating a criminal protective order. (§ 273.6, subd. (a).) The information further alleged defendant committed the offenses while released on bail and that he had several prior felony convictions. (§§ 12022.1, 1203, subd. (e)(4).) In a midnight telephone call, defendant pleaded with the victim to let him come over and then told the victim he was on his way. When he arrived, an argument ensued. Defendant choked the victim, ripped off her necklace, and took her earrings and glasses. He then left in his car and was later arrested. Defendant agreed to plead guilty to one count of infliction of corporal injury on someone with whom he had a dating relationship and one count of violating a protective order in exchange for a stipulated upper term of four years in prison with the execution of that sentence suspended based on his completion of four years of probation. The terms of probation would…