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California Penal Code 597(a): Animal Abuse Legal Definition: Any person who overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, overworks, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance, drink, or shelter, cruelly beats, mutilates, or cruelly kills an animal, or causes or procures any animal to be so overdriven, tormented, deprived of necessary sustenance, drink, shelter, or having the charge…

California Penal Code 206: Torture Legal Definition: Every person who, with the intent to cause cruel or extreme pain and suffering for the purpose of revenge, extortion, persuasion, or for any sadistic purpose, inflicts great bodily injury upon the person of another, is guilty of torture.For a person to be convicted of a violation of PC 206, the…

California Penal Code 207: Kidnapping Legal Definition: Every person who forcibly, or by any other means of instilling fear, steals or takes, or holds, detains, or arrests any person in this state, and carries the person into another country, state, or county, or into another part of the same county, is guilty of kidnapping. (PC 207(a))…

California Penal Code 422.6/California Penal Code 422.7: Hate Crimes Hate Crimes are an enhancement under PC 422. A Hate Crime is a crime that is committed by you while motivated to commit the crime by hate towards the victim because of the victim’s race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender, or nationality. A hate crime allegation is…

California Penal Code 602: Trespassing Legal Definition: There are several different subsections of Trespassing, depending on where you are at the time of the trespass.To show that you trespassed, it must be shown that you entered upon property without the owner’s consent to commit an illegal act, or that you remained on the property after being…

California Penal Code 203: Mayhem Legal Definition: Every person who unlawfully and maliciously deprives a human being of a member of his body, or disables, disfigures, or renders it useless, or cuts or disables the tongue, or puts out an eye, or slits the nose, ear, or lip, is guilty of mayhem. For a person…

California Penal Code 273.6(a)/California Penal Code 166: Violation of aRestraining Order/Contempt Laws Legal Definition: Any intentional and knowing violation of a protective order. A Protective Order can be issued in several different Courts, here, we will focus on Court Orders for Criminal Protective/Restraining Orders and Orders made by a Criminal Judge. For a person to…

California Penal Code 631/632: Unauthorized Audio Recording & Wiretapping Legal Definition: A person who, intentionally and without the consent of all parties to a confidential communication, uses an electronic amplifying or recording device to eavesdrop upon or record the confidential communication, whether the communication is carried on among the parties in the presence of one…

California Penal Code 136.1(a)/137(b): Preventing or Dissuading a Witness from Testifying/Make a Report This can be shown in one of several ways: Legal Definition: This occurs when a person prevents or tries to dissuade a witness or victim of a crime to not testifying at a hearing where testimony is required. (PC 136.1(a)(1)) You can…

California Penal Code 236/237: False Imprisonment Legal Definition: False imprisonment is the unlawful violation of the personal liberty of another. For a person to be convicted of a violation of PC 236 the prosecution must prove the following: You intentionally and unlawfully restrained/detained/confined a person; AND Your act made that person stay or go somewhere against that…

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