People v. Harris CA4/1

STATEMENT OF FACTS

Harris does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence to support his conviction.

His only evidentiary challenge is a claim the prosecution's rebuttal evidence was

irrelevant. Accordingly we will set forth only a summary of the evidence produced at

trial. We find the summary of facts in the respondent's brief to be accurate and we adopt

it here for convenience.

On December 6, 2012, around noontime, Jesus Padilla was riding his motorcycle

northbound on Mountain View Avenue toward the I-10 freeway in Loma Linda. Padilla

was splitting lanes1 as he drove down Mountain View while the other vehicles were

stopped. As Padilla was approaching Business Center Drive, while splitting lanes on a

Splitting lanes means to ride between two lanes. 2 two-lane street, a car being driven by appellant moved to the middle of the lane to block

Padilla from moving forward. Padilla stopped next to this car. The car was directly to

Padilla's right.2 Padilla raised his arms with his palms out, in order to communicate,

"What are you doing?" Padilla did not hit or kick the car. After the light turned green,

the car continued to block Padilla. Padilla…