People v. Lankford CA4/2

I. INTRODUCTION

Defendant, Dante Maurice Lankford, was convicted by a jury of 22 criminal

offenses as a result of multiple incidents involving his wife, Jane Doe. As relevant to this

appeal, defendant’s convictions included making a criminal threat (Pen. Code, § 422,

count 2) and assault with a firearm (§ 245, subd. (a)(2), count 3), as the result of an

incident in December 2017; stalking (§ 646.9, subd. (b), count 6), inflicting corporal

injury on a spouse (§ 273.5, subd. (f)(2), count 7), and making a criminal threat (§ 422,

count 9), as the result of an incident on June 10, 2018; one count of dissuading a witness

by use of force (§ 136.1, subd. (c)(1), count 13), as the result of an incident on

June 18, 2018; and one count of dissuading a witness (§ 136.1, subd. (a)(2), count 22), as

a result of jail calls made in December 2018.

Defendant was sentenced to an aggregate term of 45 years in state prison and

ordered to pay various fines and fees. As relevant to this appeal, his sentence includes

Undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code.

In full, defendant was convicted of two counts of committing corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant…