P. v. Williams CA3
Defendant Sheldon Dale Williams originally appealed a judgment entered following a court trial wherein he was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon (Pen. Code, § 245, subd. (a)(1)), infliction of corporal injury on a spouse resulting in traumatic condition (§ 273.5, subd. (a)) and making criminal threats (§ 422). The court also found true as to counts one and two that defendant had inflicted great bodily injury under circumstances of domestic violence (§ 12022.7, subd. (e)) and that he had suffered both a prior strike (§§ 667, subds. (b)-(i), 1170.12) and a prior serious felony conviction (§ 667, subd. (a)). In accordance with a lid established in exchange for defendant waiving his right to a trial by jury, defendant was sentenced to prison for an aggregate state prison term of 15 years.
On appeal, defendant challenged the sufficiency of the evidence supporting several of his convictions and the domestic violence special circumstances.
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