People v. Lightfoot CA1/4

facts. (Id. at p. 15.) We agree that Aledamat is indistinguishable and compels affirmance. Factual and Procedural History Defendant, who introduced evidence that he suffers from schizophrenia, assaulted Kyle Simmons, a transgender woman he had never met, on a bus. Acting without perceptible external provocation, defendant punched Simmons in the jaw and stabbed her once in the center of her back, where he left the knife lodged. Fortunately, the blade did not puncture Simmons’s organs or spine. She needed medication for extreme pain, but not surgery. After doctors removed the knife and repacked the wound, it fully healed. An emergency room doctor testified that a stab wound to the back could puncture the aorta, “pop” a lung, or damage the spine, but a defense medical expert opined that it was highly unlikely that a three and a half-inch blade could ever have penetrated Simmons’s spinal cord from the area where she was stabbed. Defendant was charged with attempted murder (§ 187, subd. (a); § 664), assault with a nonfirearm deadly weapon (§ 245, subd. (a)(1)), and battery on a transit passenger (§ 243.3). The information included allegations to support enhancements, as to all three…