P. v. Toms CA4/2
A jury convicted appellant, Jory Landon Toms, of kidnapping, domestic violence, making a criminal threat, and witness intimidation. The People’s evidence showed Toms injured and threatened his girlfriend, Jane Doe, forced her to return home when she sought help at a neighbor’s home, choked her, and then stopped her from opening the door for law enforcement when they responded to the neighbor’s report about the abuse. Toms denied he had used physical force against his girlfriend and said she received her injuries in a fight the day before with a woman named Crystal with whom he had been sexually involved.
In closing, defense counsel argued the jury should find Crystal, not Toms, injured Doe, and should therefore reject the witness intimidation charge because Toms had no reason to try to stop Doe from talking to the police.
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