In re G.O. CA1/1

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

A. Facts The following facts are drawn from reports prepared by the probation department: Appellant’s girlfriend (also the mother of their five-month-old daughter) reported to police that during the early morning hours of November 30, 2013, appellant began yelling at her about talking to other guys. He threatened to kill her and began to strangle her. She did not lose consciousness, but was unable to breathe. After releasing his girlfriend, appellant slapped her in the face several times, causing a swollen lower lip and a bruise to her left eye. He then squeezed scissors around the girlfriend’s right little finger, causing marks on both sides of the finger, and threatened to cut her finger off. The girlfriend also sustained cuts to her thumb and shoulder from the scissors. According to his girlfriend, appellant drank rum and also smoked marijuana throughout the following day.1 He was drunk when they went to bed that evening. Their infant daughter was sleeping on the floor next to the girlfriend’s side of the bed. The couple argued again regarding her talking to other boys. The argument woke up their daughter, and she started to cry. Appellant…