What is the test for finding a defendant guilty of a charge of criminal contempt?

California, United States of America

The following excerpt is from People v. Henley, 72 Cal.App.4th 555, 85 Cal.Rptr.2d 123 (Cal. App. 1999):

Once the prosecutor presents prima facie evidence of conviction, the trial court is allowed to make reasonable inferences from the facts presented. If there is no evidence to the contrary, the trial court may consider the abstract and the facts of the particular case, and utilizing the official duty presumption, find a defendant was convicted of and served the term of imprisonment for the listed felony. (People v. Crockett (1990) 222 Cal.App.3d 258, 262, 271 Cal.Rptr. 500.)

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