People v. Hays CA2/6

FACTS

Count 3, Battery Against Dustin Rogers On December 28, 2017, Dustin Rogers was driving through his neighborhood behind a white car. Hays was driving behind them. Suddenly Hays drove very fast around the two cars. Hays turned onto a street near where Rogers lives. Rogers followed him and took a picture of Hays’s car. Hays walked down the driveway toward Rogers. Rogers took a picture of Hays and the house where Hays was parked. Hays told Rogers, “I can’t fucking believe you followed me.” Rogers told him that he was on the board of the homeowners association and did not want people driving like that in the neighborhood. Hays spit in Rogers’s face and hit him in the jaw. Hays smelled of alcohol. Rogers said, “That’s assault.” Rogers, who was still in his truck, called 911. Hays punched the truck door. Rogers fled the scene. The police arrived at Rogers’s home. Rogers told them what happened, but said he did not want to press charges. Later Hays drove down Rogers’s street. Rogers was outside putting something in his truck. Hays slowed down and said, “Now I know where you live. I’m in your life. Now you’re dead.” Count 1, Battery with Great Bodily Injury, and Count 2, Assault…