Strangulation.

Existing law establishes various crimes against the person, such as assault and battery, and provides that any person who willfully inflicts upon a person who is his or her spouse, former spouse, cohabitant, former cohabitant, or the mother or father of his or her child, corporal injury resulting in a traumatic condition, is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 2, 3, or 4 years, or by incarceration in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine, or by both imprisonment and a fine, as specified. Existing law defines "traumatic condition" for these purposes to mean a condition of the body, such as a wound or external or internal injury, whether of a minor or serious nature, caused by a physical force. This bill, the Diana Gonzalez Strangulation Prevention Act of 2011, would specify that "traumatic condition" includes injury as a result of strangulation or suffocation and defines the terms "strangulation" and "suffocation" for those purposes.