P. v. Gonzalez CA1/3
Defendant Jose Arturo Gonzalez was charged in an eight-count information with several felony offenses—stalking (Pen. Code, § 646.9, subd. (a); count 1), making criminal threats (§ 422; counts 2, 3, 4, 5), dissuading a witness from reporting a crime (§ 136.1, subd. (b)(1); count 6), and resisting an executive officer (§ 69; count 7)—and one misdemeanor offense of disorderly conduct by distributing a private intimate image (§ 647, subd. (j)(4); count 8). After a five-day jury trial, defendant was convicted of stalking, one count of making a criminal threat (count 5), dissuading a witness from reporting a crime, and disorderly conduct by distributing a private intimate image.
Defendant now appeals, limiting his challenge to his conviction of count 5, making a criminal threat. He contends that his conviction of this count must be reversed because the prosecution failed to present sufficient evidence of his intent to threaten the victim, Jane Doe, with death or great bodily i
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