P. v. Rodriguez CA1/2
After an incident in which defendant Richard Rodriguez beat his then girlfriend with two golf clubs while she was asleep, a jury convicted him of torture and domestic violence and he was sentenced to a lengthy prison term. Rodriguez argues that the evidence was insufficient to support the intent element of his torture conviction, that the trial court had a sua sponte duty to instruct the jury on the definition of “cruel or extreme pain and suffering” in the jury instructions on torture, and that convictions for crimes he committed as a juvenile should not have been used to enhance his sentence. We affirm.
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