Fish

BACKGROUND

In October 2021, Fish was charged with (1) making criminal threats (§ 422, subd. (a)); (2) brandishing a weapon (§ 417, subd. (a)(1)); and (3) possession of drug paraphernalia (Health & Saf. Code, § 11364). In December 2021, as part of a negotiated disposition, Fish pled guilty to one count of making a criminal threat in exchange for a grant of probation. Fish was advised that his conviction would qualify as a “strike” for purposes of sentencing on any future felony conviction. The parties stipulated as a factual basis for the plea that on September 25, 2021, Fish told the victim that he was going to bash her head in with a rock and kill her. In March 2022, Fish was arrested and charged with several offenses committed against a different victim. As subsequently amended, Fish was charged by information in count 1 with corporal injury to a cohabitant (§ 273.5, subd. (a)); in count 2, with assault with a deadly weapon (§ 245, subd. (a)(1)); in count 3, with assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury (§ 245, subd. (a)(4)); and in count 4, with dissuading a witness (§ 136.1,

2 subd. (c)(1)). The information further alleged that Fish’s December 2021 conviction…