People v. Reghitto CA6

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND3

A. Facts relating to the offenses and investigation In May 2012, Brian Thompson, vice principal of instruction at Leland High School (Leland) in San Jose, California, contacted the San Jose Police Department to report he had received an anonymous letter claiming Reghitto, vice principal of activities at Leland, was having a sexual relationship with the victim, a Leland student. Thompson advised police the letter said Reghitto met the then-16-year-old victim after midnight at a local park following back-to-school night on September 2, 2011. During the encounter, Reghitto put his finger in the victim’s vagina. The letter also advised that phone records and text messages from the victim’s cell phone and Reghitto’s cell phone would confirm an ongoing sexual relationship and sexual communications between the two. San Jose police officers interviewed the victim at Leland, and she informed the officers she began communicating with Reghitto during the summer of 2011. She saw Reghitto at the school gym where she was working out, and he began flirting with her on Facebook. After he gave her his cell phone number, they communicated mostly by…