Posted on 05/26/2006 1:07:10 PM PDT by SmithL
A jury found the son of murder defendant Susan Polk guilty Wednesday of battery charges involving a former girlfriend.
The jury found Eli Polk, 20, guilty of one count misdemeanor battery and two counts of violating a restraining order, said deputy district attorney Tom Kensok.
After the conviction, Judge Nancy Davis Stark sentenced Polk to nine months in County Jail.
The charges stem from two incidents in March involving Polk and his girlfriend during a time period when he was preparing to testify on his mother's behalf at her trial.
Prosecutors said Polk struck his girlfriend on March 9. That day and again on March 14, he violated a restraining order the woman had filed against him in January.
The jury acquitted the Orinda resident of another count of battery and two counts of dissuading a witness, all stemming from an incident on Oct. 20, 2005.
Prosecutors had alleged that Polk struck his girlfriend and tried to stop her from calling police. Polk testified he never tried to stop the woman from calling police.
In one instance, Polk denied breaking the woman's cell phone but said she threw it at him. In another instance, he denied that he grabbed the phone she was using to call 911. He said she hung it up herself.
Polk had faced a state prison sentence because he was serving county probation for a 2005 felony conviction of evading police in 2003.
The jury heard testimony for three days and spent most of Wednesday deliberating.
"It's satisfactory," Kensok said. "He has all the reason in the world to behave. We have the ability to give him a lot more (jail time) if he doesn't fly straight."
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