People v. Fuentes
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Fuentes pleaded guilty to inflicting corporal injury on Doe, a person with whom he had a dating relationship, and admitted inflicting great bodily injury on the (then-pregnant) victim in circumstances involving domestic violence. His plea agreement called for probation with a suspended sentence of eight years. After he was released pending sentencing, Fuentes was found to have violated a provision in the plea agreement specifying that if he committed another crime, violated a condition of release, or willfully failed to appear for sentencing, he would be sentenced unconditionally. Doe had reported a violation of Fuentes’s order to have only peaceful contact with her in that he yelled at her and withheld access to her phone and internet access. Fuentes was determined to have violated his criminal protective order “as the victim was in fear of [him] and he was preventing her access to call for help.” Fuentes was sentenced to a nine-year prison term.
The court of appeal rejected his arguments that the condition he was found to have violated was unconstitutionally vague and that the evidence did not support finding a violation. The court remanded for resentencing based on post-sentencing statutory amendments. Senate Bill made the middle term of imprisonment the presumptive sentence.
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