People v. Williams CA3

I. BACKGROUND

A. The Amended Felony Information On November 5, 2018, the People filed an amended felony information alleging that between March 1, 2018, and June 21, 2018, defendant committed three separate law violations upon the victim, A.D. Count one alleged defendant committed assault with a deadly weapon (§ 245, subd. (a)(1)) by BB gun. Count two alleged defendant inflicted corporal injury on a spouse resulting in traumatic condition (§ 273.5, subd. (a)) and count three charged defendant with making criminal threats (§ 422). The information further alleged as to counts one and two that defendant personally inflicted great bodily injury under circumstances of domestic violence (§ 12022.7, subd. (e)) and that defendant had suffered a prior strike (§§ 667, subds. (b)-(i), 1170.12) as well as a prior conviction for a serious felony (§ 667, subd. (a)). Defendant pleaded not guilty and waived his right to a jury trial in exchange for a sentencing lid of 15 years. B. The Trial and Sentence Defendant and A.D. began living together in July 2016, and the couple married in March 2017. Their child was born in May 2017, and they remained married at the time of trial. A.D. did not…