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P. v. Newman CA2/2
Opinion
Opinion
FACTS
Prosecution Case On May 27, 2011, appellant and his fiancée, Michele Bowes, went to dinner at a local restaurant. During dinner, appellant talked about his mother and his grandmother but was not making “sense” to Bowes. Bowes decided to leave the restaurant and went outside. Appellant followed Bowes outside and walked toward her car. Bowes drove to her home in the City of Lancaster. She parked the car around the corner from her home instead of her driveway because she wanted appellant to think she was not home. Bowes entered her house and placed a table in front of the front door. She told her 14-year-old daughter K.B. to go into Bowes’s bedroom with her and she then barricaded the bedroom door.
All further statutory references are to the Penal Code unless otherwise indicated.
2 Bowes and K.B. laid on the bed watching television. Approximately 30 minutes later Bowes heard appellant unlock the front door with his key. Appellant was unable to get in and went to the back door to gain entrance. Bowes told K.B. to send a text to appellant to tell him to go home. Appellant did not return the text, so K.B. called and told him to leave or she would call the police. Bowes…