Skiver

FACTS

Skiver and Garcia are former employees of SunLine Transit Agency (SunLine).

Garcia posted videos on social media with fake images of violence against current and

former SunLine employees. One video showed SunLine employees, including Skiver,

“being punched in the face by the [‘B]reaking [B]ad[’] character Walter White.” Garcia

also posted a video of a SunLine employee being followed on his/her commute home.

At the start of the evidentiary hearing, the trial court announced that Skiver’s

attorney would present evidence, and after Skiver’s attorney “presented [her] side of the

case,” then Garcia could “address the Court.” As Skiver’s attorney finished his direct

examinations of Skiver’s first, second, and fourth witnesses, each time the trial court

1 The record does not include a reporter’s transcript from the evidentiary hearing. Therefore, on our own motion, we augment the record with the reporter’s transcript of the evidentiary hearing, which was filed in the related case of Skiver v. Raeck, Court of Appeal case No. E081741—Skiver v. Raeck was heard in the trial court at the same time as the instant case. (Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.155(a)(1)(B).)

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