P. v. Woodward CA3
In July 2018, a jury found defendant Stephen Nicholas Woodward, Jr., guilty of corporal injury to a spouse, false imprisonment, attempted second degree robbery, and assault with a deadly weapon. The jury also found true: (1) that -- as to all four counts -- defendant personally inflicted great bodily injury on the victim within the meaning of Penal Code section 12022.7, subdivision (e); and (2) that during the commission of corporal injury to his spouse, defendant personally used a baseball bat as a deadly weapon within the meaning of section 12022, subdivision (b)(1).
In August 2018, the trial court imposed an aggregate sentence of nine years in state prison, consisting of: (1) the upper term of four years for the corporal injury offense; (2) the middle term of four years for the great bodily injury enhancement to the corporal injury offense; and (3) one year for the deadly weapon enhancement to the corporal injury offense.
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