Larson

Defendant and appellant Jon Warren Larson appeals after he was convicted of one count of inflicting corporal injury on a cohabitant. The conviction was a third strike for defendant, who was sentenced to 27 years to life. Defendant contends (1) the trial court erred in admitting evidence of a past uncharged incident, and (2) the admission of records of defendant’s prior convictions violated his Sixth Amendment right of confrontation and cross-examination. We are unpersuaded, and affirm the judgment.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Defendant met Deborah Jessen in February of 2007. Both homeless, they spent the next few months together, staying variously at friends’ homes; at motels; or sometimes without shelter, camping near a local riverbed. Jessen *835 received about $800 per month in Social Security Disability income; lessen and defendant shared her money, and they panhandled together.

By June 2007, defendant and lessen had been together for about four months. In the first week of June, they were sharing a room at a motel in Riverside. Neither defendant nor lessen had any valid identification, so they prevailed upon a friend, Robert Tinsley, to rent the room for them.…