People v. Seymour

Opinion

MÁRQUEZ, J.

Defendant and appellant Joshua Patrick Seymour was convicted by plea of one felony count of assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury (Pen. Code, § 245, subd. (a)(1)) as the result of domestic violence toward his girlfriend. (All further undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code.) The trial court suspended imposition of sentence and granted probation for three years. The conditions of defendant’s probation required him, among other things, to serve four months in jail, followed by a six-month residential substance abuse program, to…