Obermueller

Filed 8/16/

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION EIGHT

PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF B327891

CALIFORNIA,

Los Angeles County Plaintiff and Respondent, Super. Ct. No. YA104659-

v.

KURT BRADY OBERMUELLER,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Nicole C. Bershon, Judge. Affirmed. James M. Crawford, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Rob Bonta, Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Susan Sullivan Pithey, Assistant Attorney General, Scott A. Taryle and Lauren N. Gruber, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent. ____________________________________ Kurt Brady Obermueller appeals his second stalking conviction on the ground the court should have instructed the jury on a lesser included offense: attempted stalking. His logic is that, after his first conviction, he refrained from emailing directly to the victim herself. Rather, he emailed threatening messages only to her family, who forwarded the messages to the victim. We affirm because stalkers who…