Lopez

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

Appellant was charged by information filed on February 13, 2013, with one count of stalking. (Pen. Code, § 646.9, subd. (a).)1 Presentation of the case to a jury began on May 10, 2013, and on May 14, 2013, appellant was found guilty as charged. On July 3, 2013, the court suspended imposition of sentence and granted probation for a period of five years. Appellant filed a timely notice of appeal on July 8, 2013.

STATEMENT OF FACTS

Angie Rizzo met appellant at the Mission Library when she was 16 years old and he was about 26. Rizzo would go to the library after school on Tuesdays to do

1 All further statutory references will be to the Penal Code.

1 homework; appellant would help her with her Spanish homework and she would help him with his English. He referred to himself as “Cesar Cold.” Rizzo saw appellant outside the library on a few occasions: Once they went to the Golden Gate Bridge and walked around the surrounding areas, and once they had lunch at a café. Shortly after Rizzo turned 18, they agreed to meet at a bus stop and go to a movie together. Appellant arrived with flowers and wine for Rizzo and she realized he thought it was a romantic date,…