113 Cal. App. 4th 679 - People v. MacIel’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2020
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 9 Cal. 4th 1069 - Tobe v. City of Santa Ana · People Ex Rel. Gallo v. Acuna · In Re Cregler · 5 Cal. 4th 561 - Williams v. Garcetti · 26 Cal. 4th 221 - People v. Toledo
Most-quoted passages
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“[Petitioner] argues that there was insufficient evidence as to the “immediate prospect of execution” and “sustained fear” as to the counts in question because at the time he made the threats he was “an inmate housed in a segregated module.” [Petitioner] argues that the criminal threats involved deputies assigned to the high security module who were in contact with him daily and knew him to be disruptive. In addition, [petitioner] argues that the threats related to counts 5, 8, and 9 were all made on the same day to Deputy Ben-Sahile[,] who communicated them to Deputies Coss and Carmona. [Petitioner] reasons: “Although [Deputies] Ben-Sahile, Coss and Carmona may have disliked [defendant] and were angered by his words, there is insufficient evidence the alleged ‘threat’ was so unequivocal, immediate, and specific as to convey to the deputies an immediate prospect of execution of the threat causing them to be in sustained fear for their safety or their family’s safety.” We disagree. * * * ... [Petitioner] does not deny that he made the threats. Rather, he attempts to minimize their significance by pointing out that he was known as a difficult inmate and the deputies were in control of his confinement and limited movement. However, in each instance, the deputies were placed in fear because of [petitioner’s] ability to obtain weapons as well as his “connections” in the gang within the community. On September 13, 2005, Deputy Coss found [petitioner] in possession of a prison-made s”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`has been used in the law of California for over a century without further definition,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a significant or substantial physical injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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