Salazar

Filed 6/28/

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION SIX

THE PEOPLE, 2d Crim. No. B309803 (Super. Ct. No. 2018027995) Plaintiff and Respondent, (Ventura County)

v.

NORMAN THOMAS

SALAZAR,

Defendant and Appellant.

The Goddess of justice is not wearing a black arm- band today weeping for the California Constitution. (See Brosnahan v. Brown (1982) 32 Cal.3d 236, 299 (dis. opn. of Mosk, J.).) Instead, she is, perhaps, applauding our application of it where there has been no miscarriage of justice in the Superior Court. It is our Constitutional obligation to affirm a judgment, where a more favorable outcome will not result upon reversal. Norman Thomas Salazar appeals from the judgment after the jury found him guilty of false imprisonment by violence or menace (count 1, Pen. Code, §§ 236, 237, subd. (a))1 and

Statutory references are to the Penal Code. infliction of corporal injury on a person with whom he had a current or former dating relationship (count 3, § 273.5, subd. (a)). He admitted a prior strike (§§ 667, subds. (c)(1), (e)(1), 1170.12, subds. (a)(1),…