How have courts dealt with the issue of domestic violence in the past?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Smyer, B283604 (Cal. App. 2019):
People v. Simon (1986) 184 Cal.App.3d 125 (Simon), is instructive. There, the defendant shot a man in his former girlfriend's house. (Id. at pp. 127-129.) The defendant claimed he shot the man in self-defense. At trial, the prosecution offered evidence of a prior incident in which the defendant pulled a gun on a drug dealer in his girlfriend's house. (Id. at pp. 128-129.)
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