P. v. Driscoll CA5
Defendant Jerome Driscoll sexually assaulted his girlfriend’s teenage sister. Weeks later, defendant beat his girlfriend severely and refused to let her leave their home. He was thereafter convicted of corporal injury to a cohabitant (Pen. Code, § 273.5, subd. (a)), false imprisonment (Pen. Code, § 236), and forcible sexual penetration (Pen. Code, § 289, subd. (a)(1)(C)). The trial court sentenced defendant to the upper term of four years for corporal injury and the upper term of 10 years for sexual assault, for a total determinate prison term of 14 years. Defendant’s three-year sentence for false imprisonment was stayed. (Pen. Code, § 654.)
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