P. v. Stiles CA1/2
After a jury trial, defendant Nicholas Daniel Stiles was convicted of misdemeanor disobeying a civil protective order (Pen. Code, § 273.6, subd. (a) ), misdemeanor contempt for violating a criminal protective order (§ 166, subd. (c)(1)) and stalking while a protective order was in effect (§ 646.9, subd. (b)). After the first jury hung on a charge of felony vandalism (§ 594, subd. (a)), the People elected to retry defendant on that charge, and the jury in the second trial convicted him. Defendant makes two arguments on appeal: first, the charges of disobeying a civil protective order and stalking while a protective order was in effect are not supported by substantial evidence, and second, the trial court erred by imposing concurrent sentences on his convictions of disobeying the civil protective order and violating the criminal protective order, and should have stayed those sentences under section 654.
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