Does a stalking conviction for making criminal threats against his ex-wife constitute domestic violence?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Brown, C078930 (Cal. App. 2018):
And People v. Ogle (2010) 185 Cal.App.4th 1138 (Ogle), held that the defendant's prior stalking of his ex-wife was an act of domestic violence such that evidence of that stalking conviction was admissible to prove his propensity to commit the charged offense of making criminal threats against his ex-wife.
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