People v. Erdelen

Opinion

STONE (S. J.), P. J.

James Charles Erdelen appeals from the judgment entered following a jury trial that resulted in his conviction of vandalism (Pen. Code, § 594; count 2) 1 and disobeying a domestic relations court order (§ 273.6; count 3) 2 (both misdemeanors) and, following his negotiated plea of no contest to violating, with an act of violence or threat of violence, a restraining order after previously violating a court order within the past seven years (§ 273.6, former subd. (c); count 20). He was sentenced to a prison term of three years plus a consecutive jail term of one year.…