People v. Corral CA2/1

FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS BELOW

The victim of the threats, Ana Rios, told Gardena police officers that she was assaulted by defendant Corral a month earlier when they were passengers on a bus and that she later received threatening phone calls from him. Rios knew Corral because he had once dated her sister. The confrontation started when Rios and Corral were passengers on a bus and Rios told Corral not to talk to her or be around her or her children because she heard that he raped his sister. Corral hit Rios in the back as she got off the bus. After that, Corral called Rios numerous times leaving threatening messages on her voicemail. In a message played to the jury Corral told Rios: “Well, check this out bitch, you wanna fuckin’ put . . . my sister’s name in your mouth, and you wanna say some shit about my sister being raped? . . . Bitch, you’re gonna get dealt with. I’m will fuckin’ be seeing you soon bitch, and I’m gonna knock all your fuckin’ teeth out, bitch[.] I’m gonna fuckin’ put your ass in the hospital, that’s a fuckin’ serious issue right there. . . . [W]hen I see you, you’re fuckin’ gonna tell me and you’re gonna get beat the fucked down, bitch, I ain’t no fuckin’ joke…