Can a sentence for making a terrorist threat be stayed?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Mendoza, 59 Cal.App.4th 1333, 69 Cal.Rptr.2d 728 (Cal. App. 1997):
Accordingly, the concurrent sentence imposed for making a terrorist threat ( 422) must be stayed. (People v. Dominguez (1995) 38 Cal.App.4th 410, 420, 45 Cal.Rptr.2d 153 [the proper procedure for disposing of a term banned by section 654 is to impose and stay sentence].)
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