Supreme Court of California

Penal Code section 422, which makes it a crime to willfully threaten to commit a crime which will result in death or great bodily injury to another person, also criminalizes an attempt to make a threat.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/23/2001
• Published 07/23/2001

Judges

• GEORGE, C.J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  David P. Lampkin, Los Angeles, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Carol Wendelin Pollack, Assistant Attorney General, Kyle S. Brodie, John L. Gorey and Renee Rich, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.