People v. Williams CA2/8

Filed 2/14/23 P. v. Williams CA2/8 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION EIGHT

THE PEOPLE, B318495

Plaintiff and Respondent, Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. v. SA094125

WONE WILLIAMS,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Lauren Weis Birnstein, Judge. Affirmed. Michele A. Douglass, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Rob Bonta, Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Susan Sullivan Pithey, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Kenneth C. Byrne, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Blake Armstrong, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent. ____________________

Wone Williams pleaded no contest to domestic violence. The trial court placed Williams on probation and issued a 10-year criminal protective order safeguarding the victim. While on probation, Williams again pleaded no contest to the charge of attempted murder of the same victim. While incarcerated for this latest crime, he threatened the victim’s life. At the probation violation hearing, Williams yelled and screamed when referring to the victim. The court issued a new 10-year criminal protective order and imposed prison time. On appeal, Williams challenges only the latter protective order, arguing it exceeded the court’s authority. We affirm. Statutory references are to the Penal Code. I In 2016, Williams pulled a pocketknife on his former girlfriend during an argument and left a five-inch laceration on her face. He was on probation at the time for a domestic violence offense against the same woman. He pleaded no contest to inflicting corporal injury on the mother of his child within seven years of a prior domestic violence offense (section 273.5, subd. (f)(1)). The court put Williams on probation and required him to complete a 52-week domestic violence program. It issued a 10- year protective order specifying the victim as the protected person and read the order aloud to Williams. The court issued the order as a condition of probation under section 1203.097 and under section 273.5, subdivision (j). This is the 2016 protective order. It expires on December 21, 2026. The court later learned Williams had tried to kill the same victim in 2019, again while he was on probation. Court records showed he had entered a no contest plea to attempted murder in