Builder Faces Trial in Battery Case
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A Sept. 8 trial date has been set for an Oxnard real estate developer charged with striking a woman during a domestic dispute.
Donald T. Kojima is charged with battery involving serious bodily injury and burglary, both felonies, Deputy Dist. Atty. Maeve Fox said. He is free on his own recognizance pending trial.
The charges stem from an October, 1994, incident, during which the 44-year-old Kojima allegedly struck a 40-year-old woman in the face, knocking her to the floor of her east Ventura home.
The woman, who described Kojima as her boyfriend, said he hit her after entering her house. The woman called the police a few minutes later.
Fox said Kojima is charged with burglary because he entered the woman’s home with the intent to commit a felony.
Last July, Kojima sold the city of Oxnard 41 acres of farmland for $5.3 million to build a school and low-income housing project near St. John’s Regional Medical Center.
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