Ventura, CA Domestic Violence Attorney - What is Corporal Injury to a Spouse?

California Penal Code section 270 3.5 is the most common type of domestic violence charge that we see and it involves some type of corporal injury to either a spouse or a cohabitant cohabitant being someone that you live with it doesn't even have to be someone that you live with it's been expanded to be it could be a girlfriend boyfriend an ex-girlfriend an ex-boyfriend it could be a brother or sister a mother a father someone with that familial relationship the reason I leave that child is because there's specific child abuse charges there but it's essentially the same elements as battery it's a an intentional rude or angry touching domestic violence's of messy crime and there's a lot of using it for reasons that aren't exactly that it happened you know someone's having an affair and they want to you know the other person is angry and they you know and they say and do something I've had a case where someone just wanted sympathy and she she took her shoulder and jammed it up against you know banged it up against a piece of furniture with a little lip going out and told someone that her boyfriend hit her with a broom certainly looked like it but you know thankfully you know the truth came out in that one and then there's you know some domestic violence that can be chalked up to mistake you know it's a heated argument someone throws something they don't mean to throw it at the person or it bounces off something and you know you have your battery there the most common defense to domestic violence charges other than that it didn't happen is that it was self-defense they say it takes two to tango and there are certainly real and very serious domestic violence situations but more often than not it's a it's a mutual combat type situation the police co show up and someone's got to go to jail and they pick their you know they pick their victim and they pick their defendant and that's not always the way it is you