People v. Williamson CA4/3

Filed 6/16/16 P. v. Williamson CA4/3 Received for posting 6/17/16

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION THREE

THE PEOPLE,

Plaintiff and Respondent, G052657

v. (Super. Ct. No. 10NF1083)

JAMES PATRICK WILLIAMSON, OPINION

Defendant and Appellant.

Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Orange County, Richard M. King, Judge. Affirmed. Robert L.S. Angres, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. No appearance by Plaintiff and Respondent. * * *

Defendant James Patrick Williamson was charged with aggravated assault, kidnapping, false imprisonment, and criminal threats. The Information alleged an enhancement of great bodily injury in committing the present crimes and that he suffered two or more prior convictions for committing serious or violent crimes. The preliminary hearing transcript contains the testimony of a police officer who interviewed a witness who, while driving, observed a male drag a person out of the passenger seat of a car on April 11, 2010. The witness observed the man leaning over the person making striking motions with his arm. The witness telephoned the police, reading the license number of the vehicle to the dispatcher and then turned the car around to look again, and this time observed a woman sitting on the curb with blood on her face while the man was standing by the open trunk of the car. When police arrived at the scene, defendant was walking from the back of the car to the front of the car, and the woman was in the front passenger seat. A police officer described the woman: “I could see that she had blood on her face and appearing to have bruising already on her face, and she looked very – in my opinion, very frightened.” “Her lower lip was bleeding, and it looked like deep redness, purple marks on her face, and her nose had started to bleed . . . .” The woman told the following to the police: “[T]he defendant, Williamson, hit her numerous times with closed fists on her face, and had--she tried to get out of the car, he slammed her head against the curb and threw her back in the car[,]” and he then started punching her again. Defendant and the woman had dated for nine months, broke up a month before the incident and had “gotten back together a week before the incident.” As the two sat in the car that day, defendant asked her if she “loved him,” and when she said she did not, he began punching her with both fists, and said, “[Y]ou don’t know who you’re messing with.” According to a police officer, defendant told the victim he was going to