P. v. Harper CA2/1
On July 20, 2020, defendant Deandre Harper pleaded no contest to a charge of burglary under Penal Code section 459. The trial court sentenced him to 11 years, suspended execution of sentence, and placed him on formal probation for five years. One condition of that probation was to “obey all laws . . . .”
Less than a year later, on June 22, 2021, defendant was arrested for willful infliction of corporal injury (Pen. Code, § 273.5, subd. (a)) and criminal threats (id., § 422, subd. (a)) following a domestic violence incident with his girlfriend, C.S. On July 8, 2021, the trial court revoked defendant’s probation and issued a bench warrant. Defendant appeared on July 13, 2021.
The trial court held a parole violation hearing on August 10, 2021. The People called C.S. as a witness. C.S. testified that at the time of the domestic violence incident she had been dating defendant for about three years.
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