State Ex Rel. McDougall v. Strohson

OPINION

MOELLER, Justice.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Respondent Dale W. Cantrell was charged in Phoenix Municipal Court with simple assault, a class 1 misdemeanor, in violation of A.R.S. § 13-1203(A)(1). The victim of the alleged assault was the sixteen-year-old son of respondent’s girlfriend. In accordance with Arizona’s domestic violence statutes, A.R.S. §§ 13-3601 and 13-3602, the complaint designated the offense to be “domestic *121violence,” a designation that is unchallenged in this proceeding.

Respondent requested a jury trial. In doing so, he acknowledged that, under established Arizona law,…