February 25, 2011The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects every person from being free from unreasonable searches and seizures by law enforcement. This means the police must have either a warrant, or some other legitimate reason to be able to search anything in which a person has a “reasonable expectation of privacy”. One of the reasons […]
Read the full article → December 15, 2010Elements of the Crime In order to be convicted of California Penal Code Section 594, vandalism, the prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused person: 1) maliciously 2) defaced, destroyed, or damaged 3) the property of another. To act “maliciously” means that the person acted with the intent to cause the damage […]
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