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PEOPLE v. CHANDLER

No. S207542.

60 Cal.4th 508 (2014)

176 Cal. Rptr. 3d 548

332 P.3d 538

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. BEN CHANDLER, JR., Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

August 28, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen M. Hinkle , under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Kamala D. Harris , Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Julie L. Garland , Assistant Attorney General, William M. Wood , Steven T. Oetting , Bradley A. Weinreb , Kathryn Kirschbaum and Christopher P. Beesley , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Charles D. Dresow for Glen A. March as Amicus Curiae.

OPINION

LIU, J. —

Penal Code section 422, subdivision (a) prohibits "willfully threaten[ing] to commit a crime which will result in death or great bodily injury to another person, with the specific intent that the statement ... is to be taken as a threat ... which, on its face and under the circumstances in which it is made, is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person threatened, a gravity of purpose...

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