What is the test for domestic violence under section 13700 of the California Penal Code?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Landeros, F077393 (Cal. App. 2020):
"Penal Code section 13700 subdivisions (a) and (b) together define domestic violence as requiring either bodily injury, attempted bodily injury, or placing the victim in 'reasonable apprehension of imminent serious bodily injury to himself or herself, or another.' [Citation.]" (People v. Ogle (2010) 185 Cal.App.4th 1138, 1144.)
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