Robertson

I. BACKGROUND/PRIOR PROCEEDINGS

On March 9, 2016, Bottenfield was charged with inflicting injury upon a person with whom he had a dating relationship (Count 1) and false imprisonment of another by means of violence, menace, fraud and deceit (Count 2). The information further alleged as to Count 1 that Bottenfield personally inflicted great bodily injury upon the victim and that he had suffered a prior serious felony conviction. Bottenfield pled not guilty and denied the enhancement allegations. He proceeded to a jury trial on March 10, 2016. On direct appeal of his conviction, the California Court of Appeal laid out the following facts underlying the charges against Bottenfield and the evidence presented at trial: In August 2015, [Bottenfield] lived with his fiancée, C.H., in her apartment in Citrus Heights. At that time, C.H. had been an alcoholic for 30 years and had a problem with methamphetamine. According to C.H., she and [Bottenfield] had been working on their sobriety together. On the evening of August 31, 2015, [Bottenfield] and C.H. got into an argument after they had consumed alcohol and used methamphetamine. During the argument, [Bottenfield] grabbed C.H. by…