P. v. Lankford CA4/2
Defendant, Dante Maurice Lankford, was convicted by a jury of 22 criminal offenses as a result of multiple incidents involving his wife, Jane Doe. As relevant to this appeal, defendant’s convictions included making a criminal threat (Pen. Code, § 422, count 2) and assault with a firearm (§ 245, subd. (a)(2), count 3), as the result of an incident in December 2017; stalking (§ 646.9, subd. (b), count 6), inflicting corporal injury on a spouse (§ 273.5, subd. (f)(2), count 7), and making a criminal threat (§ 422, count 9), as the result of an incident on June 10, 2018; one count of dissuading a witness by use of force (§ 136.1, subd. (c)(1), count 13), as the result of an incident on June 18, 2018; and one count of dissuading a witness (§ 136.1, subd. (a)(2), count 22), as a result of jail calls made in December 2018.
Defendant was sentenced to an aggregate term of 45 years in state prison and ordered to pay various fines and fees. As relevant to this appeal, his sentence includ
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