P. v. Carlson CA3
In February 2020, defendant entered his ex-girlfriend’s home, found her in bed with a man, and hit that man on the head with a baseball bat several times. The baseball bat also struck defendant’s ex-girlfriend’s hand when she tried to block defendant’s blows. When two other adults in the home tried to make defendant leave, he pointed a handgun at them at threatened to kill at least one of them. Defendant also broke multiple windows of a car parked outside the home that belonged to the man in bed with his ex-girlfriend.
An information alleged defendant committed 10 offenses, including first degree burglary (Pen. Code, § 459) ; two counts of assault with a deadly weapon (§ 245, subd. (a)(1)), with the accompanying allegation of personal infliction of great bodily injury (GBI) (§ 12022.7, subd. (a)) as to one of those counts; two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm (§ 245, subd. (b)); vandalism causing over $400 in damage to the personal property of another (§ 594,
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