People v. Molina-Lopez CA1/2

BACKGROUND

In July 2019, the Sonoma County District Attorney filed a felony complaint alleging Molina-Lopez unlawfully threatened his female neighbor (Pen. Code, § 422, subd. (a)), resisted arrest (id., § 148, subd. (a)(1)) and committed a miscellaneous offense of stalking (id., § 646.9, subd. (a)). The court subsequently accepted Molina-Lopez’s plea of no contest to stalking (id., § 646.9, subd. (a)) and dismissed the other charges. The court found him guilty of stalking, sentenced him to 36 months of formal probation and 90 days in jail and imposed various fines and fees. In December 2020, the court conducted a victim restitution hearing. The prosecution presented Exhibit 1, which contains documents that indicate the Board paid the victim $22,176 for one year of wages lost as a result of Molina-Lopez’s criminal conduct, and the prosecution sought a court order that Molina-Lopez pay that amount to the Board. The documents in Exhibit 1 include a certification by a Board custodian of records that the attached documents “are accurate reproductions of bills that were submitted to and paid by the Board in the amounts indicated, by or on behalf” of the victim. The custodian further…