California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Barnhill, D073999 (Cal. App. 2019):
A violation of Penal Code section 273.5 occurs when a person "willfully inflicts corporal injury resulting in a traumatic condition" upon the offender's "cohabitant or former cohabitant." (Pen. Code, 273.5, subds. (a), (b)(2).) The statute is intended to allow law enforcement to expeditiously intervene in domestic disputes. (People v. Gutierrez (1985) 171 Cal.App.3d 944, 950.) The statute defines "traumatic condition"
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