P. v. Kowalczyk
Candice B. Kowalczyk entered a negotiated guilty plea to corporal injury to a cohabitant (Pen. Code, 273.5, subd. (a)) and admitted she had a prior serious/violent felony or strike conviction (Pen. Code, 667, subds. (b)-(i)). In exchange, the prosecution agreed to dismiss the remaining chargestwo counts of assault with a deadly weapon, one count of making a criminal threat and one count of dissuading a witness by force or threat. The prosecution also agreed Kowalczyk's current corporal injury to a cohabitant conviction would not be considered a strike conviction. The parties stipulated to a prison term of four years. The court sentenced Kowalczyk to four years in prisonthe low term of two years doubled under the Three Strikes law.
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