P. v. Collom
A jury found defendant David Paul Collom guilty of inflicting corporal injury on his wife, felony false imprisonment, and grossly negligent discharge of a firearm, and found that in committing the first two crimes he personally inflicted great bodily injury under circumstances involving domestic violence. The trial court sentenced him to an aggregate term of five years in prison.
On appeal, defendant contends the trial court erred in instructing the jury on felony false imprisonment and the great bodily injury enhancements and he received ineffective assistance of counsel with respect to both of those instructional issues. He also contends there was insufficient evidence he inflicted great bodily injury on the victim during the commission of the false imprisonment, the admission of prior acts of domestic violence violated his constitutional rights to due process, fines and fees not orally pronounced but found in the court minutes and the abstract of judgment must be stricken, and imposition of the court facilities assessment under Government Code section 70373 on the charge of grossly negligent discharge of a firearm violated the ex post facto clauses of the state and federal Constitutions.
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