P. v. Zeno CA3
Two-year-old N.B.’s foot was severely burned after being left in the care of defendant Joseph Reginald Zeno, her mother’s boyfriend. A jury found defendant guilty of felony child abuse (Pen. Code, § 273a, subd. (a)), and also found true an attached allegation that he personally inflicted great bodily harm on a child under the age of five (id., § 12022.7, subd. (d)). Defendant was sentenced to an aggregate term of nine years in state prison consisting of the midterm of four years for the abuse offense and a consecutive midterm of five years for the personal infliction of great bodily injury enhancement.
On appeal defendant contends the trial court abused its discretion in allowing the prosecution to introduce evidence of a prior uncharged domestic violence or abuse incident under Evidence Code section 1109.
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