People v. Gonzalez CA4/3

FACTS

Andrea Gallegos Andrea Gallegos met defendant “about a year” prior to testifying on November 17, 2011. Two months later, they became intimate, and six months into the relationship, defendant got “physical.” Gallegos described the first incident: “We were at his house and he thought that I was talking to an ex-boyfriend and he pushed me, got in my face and was just yelling at my face.” After then, defendant accused her of cheating on him on a daily basis, screamed at her, pushed her, shoved her and pulled her hair, and looked through her cell phone. Defendant would say such things as: “Watch what I’m going to do to

2 your family. I’m going to do something stupid to your family. Someone’s going to pay.” Gallegos was afraid of defendant. Defendant punched Gallegos with enough force to leave bruises. When she would try to leave him, defendant would respond: “Okay, somebody is going to pay.” Gallegos, her mother and her sister went to Texas for the holidays. Defendant told her he wanted her to return before New Year’s Eve, and when she did not, “he was very upset.” The prosecutor asked Gallegos how she knew defendant was so upset, and Gallegos said her grandmother called her on…