I'm obviously not a lawyer but just a super great message board poster, but I will say that I do think there is one thing that doesn't sit super great with me in terms of appeal. I do think it's very strange and perhaps illogical that the prosecution leveraged law that said that these could be up'd to a felony from misdemeanor if it was done in the commission of another crime. But that "another crime" didn't need to be litigated in any way? The jury didn't even need to agree on what that "another crime" would be?
That part seems a little less solid to me than one would have hoped.