Los Angeles criminal defense attorneys review felony crimes in California that are defined as offenses punishable by more than one year in jail or prison.
Sexual battery — Penal Code 243.4 PC, and Vandalism — Penal Code 594 PC. Convictions for felonies in California can carry county jail time or California state prison time. 3. What is the penalty for a felony in California? Depending on the seriousness of the crime, felony sentencing in Ca...
battery; sexual battery; domestic violence; stalking; and criminal threats.86 State law restores California gun rights following a misdemeanor domestic violence conviction once the 10-year restriction expires. However, federal law imposes a lifetime firearms ban following a conviction of any misdemeanor...
which holds that if the underlying felony merges with the killing, the felony cannot constitute felony-murder. For example, all of the elements ofAssault and Batterywith a deadly weapon are included in murder. If a killing, therefore, occurred during the course of this crime, the accused would...
Penal Code 243.4 PC sexual battery, most sex crimes involving minors, such as lewd acts with a child and California child pornography crimes, forced acts involving oral copulation by force or fear, Penal Code 286 sodomy, and/or Penal Code 289 forcible penetration with a foreign object, violatio...
California Penal Code 12022.1. See, for example, People v. Hurt (Cal. App. 3d Dist. 2024) 98 Cal. App. 5th 1241; People v. Codinha (Cal. App. 4th Dist. 2023) 92 Cal. App. 5th 976; People v. Kee (Cal. App. 3d Dist. 1991), 228 Cal. App. 3d 1203; People v. Buycks (Ca...