'THIRD STRIKE' COULD RESULT IN LIFE BEHIND BARS EX-CON CONVICTED OF ABUSE; WIFE OPPOSES PROSECUTION.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - An ex-convict from Quartz Hill, who was shot and wounded by a sheriff's deputy in 1991 after knocking down the officer with a stolen car, faces life in prison after receiving his ``third strike'' conviction. Garlon Grady Robinson, 37, faces up to 75 years to life in prison after being convicted Thursday of two counts of corporal CORPORAL. An epithet for anything belonging to the body, as, corporal punishment, for punishment inflicted on the person of the criminal; corporal oath, which is an oath by the party who takes it being obliged to lay his hand on the Bible. CORPORAL, in the army. injury to a spouse and two counts of assault. He was acquitted of one count of corporal injury to a spouse. The victim, 29-year-old Lisa Robinson, did not want her husband of one year prosecuted and maintained that he did not get a fair trial. ``I love my husband very much. I am going to stand by him. I am not going to turn my back on him,'' Lisa Robinson said Friday. ``You don't marry him and just a year later say, OK, I don't want you anymore.'' Garlon Robinson was charged following a Dec. 18 incident in which his wife was kicked, although Lisa Robinson said it was a fight that got out of hand. She said she had grabbed a knife and threatened to kill herself. Her husband tried to kicked the knife out of her hand, but missed and kicked her in the groin groin, in oceanography: see coast protection. , she said. But prosecutors said the evidence indicated, based in part on the victim's initial statements, that the defendant was upset that the victim was tearing tear·ing n. Epiphora. up his marijuana marijuana or marihuana, drug obtained from the flowering tops, stems, and leaves of the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa (see hemp) or C. indica; the latter species can withstand colder climates. plants and kicked her while wearing steel-toed boots. ``I think the jury did the right thing. What this shows is he is a violent man,'' said Deputy District Attorney Lisa Chung, head of the Lancaster office's Domestic Violence Unit. Robinson is a ``three strikes, you're out'' defendant with two prior ``strikes'' - convictions for attempted robbery in 1984 and the assault with a deadly weapon Assault with a Deadly Weapon is the term used to describe the act of threatening to harm one or more people by using a weapon (usually a firearm). Here, assault must be differentiated from battery as they are often confused. Assault is threatening to use force. case involving the deputy in 1991. The ``three strikes'' law requires prison terms of 25 years to life for a person convicted of a felony felony (fĕl`ənē), any grave crime, in contrast to a misdemeanor, that is so declared in statute or was so considered in common law. after two previous convictions for felonies considered violent or serious. With previous convictions for burglary, robbery and assault, Robinson was sentenced in November 1991 to seven years in prison after pleading Asking a court to grant relief. The formal presentation of claims and defenses by parties to a lawsuit. The specific papers by which the allegations of parties to a lawsuit are presented in proper form; specifically the complaint of a plaintiff and the answer of a defendant plus any guilty to assault with a deadly weapon for knocking down the deputy with a car, then dragging him along the road. He entered the plea after prosecutors agreed to drop charges of attempted murder In the criminal law, attempted murder is committed when the defendant does an act that is more than merely preparatory to the commission of the crime of murder and, at the time of these acts, the person has a specific intention to kill. , assault on a peace officer and grand theft. In Robinson's preliminary hearing for the 1991 case, Deputy Jeff Gleason testified he shot eight times at Robinson after a car driven by Robinson knocked him down and dragged him 10 to 12 feet. Robinson was trying to escape deputies seeking to arrest him on warrants for assault, spouse abuse and child abuse charges. Robinson was shot twice in the head, once in the left elbow and once in the right hand. He was hospitalized for five days after the shooting. |
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