Opinion ID: 2575903
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Defendant's Conduct in Custody

Text: Sheriff's deputies testified that on July 24, 1987, they discovered defendant had used a contraband razor blade to cut off his identification tag, and that he had hidden the blade in some paperwork. The blade had been broken away from its retaining device. One of the two deputies further testified that on February 5, 1988, he found a contraband razor blade carefully hidden in the wrapper of what appeared to be an unopened bar of defendant's soap. Another sheriff's deputy testified that on March 25, 1988, he found a contraband razor blade hidden in a container of defendant's baby powder. A deputy sheriff testified that during the guilt phase of the trial, defendant struck one of his counsel, Carolyn Roundey, who was less than five feet tall and weighed about 90 pounds. (See ante, 41 Cal. Rptr.3d at pp. 616, 617, 131 P.3d at pp. 1014, 1015.) Afterward, defendant tried to flee the courtroom, but the deputy restrained him. Roundey suffered a swollen face. A correctional officer at the Corcoran State Prison testified that in 1992 defendant was involved in a fight there with another inmate.