California Court of Appeal

Conviction of defendant for making criminal threats and giving false information to a police officer, arising from an altercation with another motorist at a gas station, is affirmed as substantial evidence supports conviction for making criminal threats where the jury reasonably could have found that the defendant's action created a sustained fear, a state of mind that was certainly more than momentary, fleeting, or transitory.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/11/2010
• Published 01/11/2010

Judges

• MOHR, J.*

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Carol S. Boyk, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Kenneth C. Byrne and Tannaz Kouhpainezhad, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.