People v. Tennard

*480I. INTRODUCTION

A jury convicted defendant and appellant, Thomas Raymillier Tennard, Jr., of a nonstrike felony: inflicting corporal injury resulting in a traumatic condition upon his cohabitant girlfriend, M.L. ( Pen. Code, § 273.5, subd. (a).)1 The court found defendant had four prison priors (§ 667.5, subd. (b)) and two prior strikes (§ 667, subds. (b)-(i)), including a 1991 conviction for forcible rape, a "super strike" (§§ 261, subd. (a)(2), 667, subd. (e)(2)(c)(iv)(I)).

Pursuant to the Three Strikes Reform Act of 2012 (Prop. 36, as approved by voters, Gen. Elec. (Nov. 6, 2012)), defendant…