People v. Brown

Opinion

RUVOLO, J.

I

Introduction

Appellant Antoine Maurice Brown was convicted by jury of numerous offenses resulting from his violent assault on his girlfriend during a domestic dispute. Brown noticed this appeal after being sentenced to 23 years in state prison as a “second strike” offender under California’s “Three Strikes” law (Pen. Code, § 667, subds. (b)-(i)). In the published portion of this opinion, we consider numerous contentions regarding Evidence Code section 1109, 2 which was enacted in 1996 and allows admission of “evidence of [a] defendant’s commission of other domestic violence”…