When will a defendant's conviction for assault with a semiautomatic firearm be reversed?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Delgado, H042134 (Cal. App. 2017):
Defendant also maintains his conviction for assault with a semiautomatic firearm must be reversed because there was no evidence he intended to do anything but frighten Fontanares, which is insufficient to support an assault conviction. (People v. Tran (1996)
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