People v. Johansen CA1/1

BACKGROUND

In 2023, defendant and D.S. had been in a dating relationship for approximately five years and had two children in common, L.J. and B.J. The victim also has two other children, V.M. and M.M., from a prior relationship. Defendant, D.S., and the four children all lived in the same residence.

1 One day—in March 2023—D.S. noticed defendant “had been acting like just irrational and paranoid for a few days,” being “verbally abusive . . . and just being manic.” He accused her of having an affair with the neighbor while he was at work or sneaking someone in the house when he was in the backyard. D.S. asked defendant, who “had been drinking a lot,” to leave. Defendant refused, and D.S. threatened to call the police. Defendant then “lunged” at her and “attacked” her, throwing her “into the walls a couple of times” and then “tackl[ing her] into the kitchen doorway.” She did not call the police, rather she tried to calm defendant down telling him she would not call the police. She also told defendant she had not cheated, trying to reassure him. The next day, defendant apologized. D.S. was “bruised” on her back and ended up with a “giant scar on [her] leg left over from that.”…