P. v. Cook CA2/5
In June 2017, the Los Angeles County District Attorney charged defendant Moammar Ameen Cook (defendant) in a six-count amended information with injuring a spouse, cohabitant, or girlfriend (count 1), assault with a deadly weapon (count 2), two counts of assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury (counts 4 and 5 ), dissuading a witness from prosecuting a crime (count 6), and second degree robbery (count 7). The charges were predicated on evidence defendant physically abused his then-girlfriend on two occasions, including one instance in which he took her phone and drove with her on the hood of his car before stopping abruptly and causing her to fall.
The jury convicted defendant of simple assault (a lesser included offense of count 4) and petty theft (a lesser included offense of count 7) and acquitted him of all other counts.
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