CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Witness Credibility Evidence
......Prior Convictions
.........Crimes Involving Moral Turpitude
............Threats
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Prosecution under Pen. Code §422 does not require unconditional threat of death or great bodily injury.

Prior conviction for making terrorist threats is felony involving moral turpitude properly admitted to impeach credibility.

Although D in TX and his long-abused cohabitant was in CA, there was substantial evidence D made a criminal threat against cohabitant which met the immediacy requirement of PC 422.

Evidence of D's prior [uncharged] offense of brandishing weapon at, and making threats to, police officers, properly admitted to impeach.