This is the basis for our present criminal trial:

The soon-to-be victim (5’5″ Latino man in his 20s) is driving down a street in his van, when the defendant (5’6″ 22-year-old Latino man) drives by and sees him. The two know each other and they don’t get along. The defendant starts waving and screaming profanities out the car at the victim. The defendant keeps following the victim until they get to a more residential street, at which time the defendant drives in front of the victim and cuts him off and stops the car. The defendant gets out of the car and goes to the victim’s van, pulls the victim out, and starts smacking him upside the head. Somehow one of them gets the victim’s Club (metal steering-wheel lock anti-theft device) out of the victim’s car and the story gets disputed at this point about who was hitting whom on the top of the head with the Club. The defendant uses the Club to smash the side of the victim’s van and some of the van windows. This altercation took place in front of a car repair shop and the owner of the shop and one employee are eye witnesses.

I’m sorry, this scenario sounds so juvenile that it’s actually funny to me. It plays out in my head like a movie. These two kids just going at it, and they’re costing the County millions of dollars in resources to make the arrest, prosecute this case and bring it to a jury trial.