People v. Crump CA1/1

I.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL

BACKGROUND

We do not describe in detail the facts underlying the instant offenses because they are mostly immaterial to the appellate issues. But briefly, in February 2011, Crump sent a letter to the Oakland business address of a Nation of Islam minister in which he directly threatened to kill the minister and “pray[ed] for the death and destruction” of the minister and the minister’s family, claiming that the minister had raped his niece. Crump signed the letter with the name of one of his professors at a college he attended. An information charged Crump with one felony count of criminal threats based on his threats to the minister and one felony count of identity theft based on his use of the professor’s name without consent. The information also alleged two prior convictions for serious felonies based on two 2005 convictions of criminal threats.3 Both prior convictions were based on an e- mail Crump sent to a general account for District One of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors. The e-mail threatened to kill the District One supervisor, his “board members” and “staff,” and the former Alameda County Sheriff. Crump asked to represent himself in…