P. v. Anderson CA2/5
Defendant Gregory Anderson appeals his conviction, following a jury trial, of battery with injury on a transit operator (Pen. Code, § 243.3) and misdemeanor vandalism (Pen. Code, § 594, subd. (a)).
On July 6, 2016, at 4:30 a.m., defendant emptied a fire extinguisher on a Metropolitan Transit Authority train platform, as the train was pulling into the station. Once the operator stopped the train, defendant tried to break into the locked cab of the train, succeeding in smashing the window separating the cab from the train (the vandalism). He then reached into the cab, ripping the wired radio from the control panel and taking the operator’s handheld radio from her person. The operator’s finger was injured in the struggle (the battery with injury).
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