A California Assembly committee moved Tuesday to increase penalties for repeat perpetrators of domestic violence but stopped short of adding the crime to the offenses covered by the state’s “Three Strikes” law, which can deal repeat offenders a life sentence. Lawmakers skeptical of adding felony domestic violence to the three-strike list, as the bill sponsored by Rocklin Republican Assemblymember Joe Patterson originally proposed, noted that crimes resulting in great bodily injury already fall under the list and deal the most violent domestic abusers steep prison sentences.
