By the The Bulldog Law Criminal Defense Team • Reviewed by a licensed California criminal defense attorney Since Proposition 64, adults 21 and over may legally grow up to SIX cannabis plants per private residence (secure, out of public view) and cultivating more than six is, for most adults,...
By the The Bulldog Law Criminal Defense Team • Reviewed by a licensed California criminal defense attorney If you're looking at a jail booking record or inmate locator that says “182,” “PC 182(a)(1),” or “BK 182” your person is charged with CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY: an agreement between two or mor...
House arrest formally home detention with electronic monitoring lets eligible defendants serve custody time AT HOME on an ankle monitor instead of in county jail, and the detail that ma...
Probation is California's alternative to custody: instead of (or after a short stay in) jail, you serve your sentence in the community under court-ordered conditions INFORMAL (“summary”...
Penal Code § 653f makes the REQUEST itself a crime: soliciting asking, urging, encouraging another person to commit a specified offense, with intent that it actually be committed, is com...
California splits the crimes around prostitution's edges into two straight felonies: PIMPING (Penal Code § 266h) knowingly deriving support or maintenance from the earnings of another p...
Penal Code § 186.22 does two things: subsection (a) makes ACTIVE PARTICIPATION in a criminal street gang its own wobbler (16 months to 3 years), and subsection (b) the famous one ENHANCE...
Manslaughter under Penal Code § 192 is unlawful killing WITHOUT malice and California splits it three ways: voluntary manslaughter (a killing in a sudden quarrel or heat of passion 3, 6...
California's hit-and-run law is two statutes: Vehicle Code § 20002 makes leaving the scene of an accident with PROPERTY damage a misdemeanor (up to 6 months and $1,000), and § 20001 mak...
Stalking under Penal Code § 646.9 requires two things together: (1) willfully, maliciously, and REPEATEDLY following or harassing another person, and (2) making a CREDIBLE THREAT s...
Grand theft auto is a real crime, and in California it lives in two statutes: Penal Code § 487(d)(1) makes STEALING a vehicle grand theft automatically no minimum value a wobbler punish...
Robbery under Penal Code § 211 is the felonious taking of personal property from someone's body or immediate presence, against their will, accomplished by force or fear and it is always ...
Carrying a concealed firearm on your person or in your vehicle without a valid CCW permit violates Penal Code § 25400 a misdemeanor by default (up to 1 year in county jail and $1,000), ...
By the The Bulldog Law Criminal Defense Team • Reviewed by a licensed California criminal defense attorney Identity theft under Penal Code § 530.5 means willfully obtaining someone's personal identifying information and using it for ANY unlawful purpose without their consent and three featur...
Extortion under California Penal Code § 518 the crime most people call blackmail means obtaining money, property, or an official act from someone, with their consent, when that consent ...
By the The Bulldog Law Personal Injury Team • Reviewed by a licensed California personal injury attorney California gives you 2 years from the date of injury to file a personal injury lawsuit (Code of Civil Procedure § 335.1) but the deadline that ambushes people is much shorter: claims agai...
Penal Code § 1473.7 lets a person who is no longer in criminal custody move to vacate an old California conviction on the ground that they never meaningfully understood the immigration con...
By the The Bulldog Law Criminal Defense Team • Reviewed by a licensed California criminal defense attorney Robbery (Penal Code § 211) is taking property from a person from their body or immediate presence, against their will, using force or fear making it a violent felony that always counts ...
By the The Bulldog Law Criminal Defense Team • Reviewed by a licensed California criminal defense attorney A no contest (nolo contendere) plea and a guilty plea produce exactly the same result in your criminal case same conviction, same sentence, same criminal record with one real difference...
Larceny is the unlawful taking of someone else's property the crime California now simply calls theft (Penal Code §§ 484/487). Burglary is something different: entering a building or st...
By the The Bulldog Law Criminal Defense Team • Reviewed by a licensed California criminal defense attorney Rape under Penal Code § 261 is sexual intercourse accomplished against a person's will through force, fear, threats, or the victim's incapacity. Statutory rape under § 261.5 (formally “u...
By the The Bulldog Law Criminal Defense Team • Reviewed by a licensed California criminal defense attorney “Charged” means you have been formally accused of a crime by any lawful method most often a prosecutor filing a criminal complaint. “Indicted” means you were charged by one specific meth...
Airdrop Farming and Sybil Accusations can turn a crypto reward campaign into a serious legal dispute. A user may believe they earned tokens through legitimate activity, while a protocol may deny rewards after concluding that the user controlled multiple wallets, used bots, manipulated eligibility...
An arraignment is the first court appearance in a California criminal case: the judge formally states the charges against you, advises you of your constitutional rights, appoints or con...
A simple first-offense alcohol DUI generally will not get a non-citizen deported courts have held it is not a crime involving moral turpitude and it appears on none of the deportability lis...