P. v. Briggs
Filed 7/7/06 P. v. Briggs CA4/2
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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT
DIVISION TWO
| THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. BERNIE FRANCELL BRIGGS, Defendant and Appellant. | E038644 (Super.Ct.No. FSB43474) O P I N I O N |
APPEAL from the Superior Court of San Bernardino County. Brian S. McCarville, Judge. Affirmed.
Patrick Morgan Ford, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Gil Gonzalez, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Garrett Beaumont, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
INTRODUCTION
Defendant was charged with one count of willfully inflicting corporal injury on his live-in girlfriend of 18 years, Karen Harrison. (Pen. Code, § 273.5, subd. (a);[1] count 1.) A jury found defendant guilty as charged. In a bifurcated trial, the jury found true additional allegations that defendant had two prior strike convictions. (§ 667, subds. (b)-(i) & 1170.12, subds. (a)-(d).) Defendant was sentenced to 25 years to life, and appeals.
Defendant first contends he was deprived of his due process right to a fair trial by the one-year â€
