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· 1/27/1997

People v. Falck

Citations

  • 52 Cal. App. 4th 287
  • 60 Cal. Rptr. 2d 624
  • 97 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 646
  • 97 Daily Journal DAR 986
  • 1997 Cal. App. LEXIS 49

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • finding that the defendant’s letters to the victim could “be construed as a threat to kill the victim or her husband” and “conveyed a credible threat” that gave her “cause to fear him”
  • distinguishing the making of a credible threat from the “intent[] to place the victim in reasonable fear of his or her safety”
  • “[I]n determining whether a threat occurred, the entire factual context, including the surrounding events and the reaction of the listeners, must be considered.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Stein

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