People v. Chance CA3

BACKGROUND

Over the course of several years, defendant abused, threatened, and harassed his ex-wife. In case No. 886, defendant pleaded no contest to assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury (§ 245, subd. (a)(4)), and in 2018 he received three years’ probation. While defendant was on probation, the probation department filed three revocation of probation petitions which were based on defendant’s failure to participate in rehabilitative programming and his commission of additional offenses. One of the offenses cited in the revocation petition, plus two additional offenses defendant committed while on probation, resulted in felony and misdemeanor charges in case Nos. 132, 154, and 20M2497 (497). Two years later, defendant appeared for a violation of probation hearing. Defendant pleaded no contest to the felonies and misdemeanors in case Nos. 132, 154, and 497. Pursuant to his plea jointly resolving case Nos. 132, 154, and 497, defendant

Undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code. 2 The parties stipulated that the preliminary hearing in case No. 17F5886 (886) and the police reports for case Nos. 19F1132 (132) and 19F5154 (154) provided the factual…