People v. Salinas CA2/2

BACKGROUND

Defendant was charged with inflicting corporal injury on a spouse, in violation of Penal Code section 273.5, subdivision (a), (count 1).1 Count 1 further alleged that defendant had suffered a prior conviction of the same offense within the preceding seven years, within the meaning of section 273.5, subdivision (e)(1), and that in the commission of the current offense, defendant inflicted great bodily injury on victim Amelia L., within the meaning of section 12022.7, subdivision (e). In count 2, defendant was charged with disobeying a domestic relations court order in violation of section 273.6, subdivision (a). Defendant agreed to plead no contest to count 1 and to admit the special allegations, in return for a four-year prison term and dismissal of count 2. On March 3, 2014, defendant entered a plea as agreed, admitted the special allegations, and the parties stipulated to the facts presented at the preliminary hearing as the basis for defendant’s admission to having inflicted great bodily injury. At the preliminary hearing Amelia testified that defendant had come to her home to see their children, and in the presence of the children, he became angry, pulled Amelia by…