BILL NUMBER: AB 1252	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Davis

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 1167 of the Penal Code, relating to
criminal trials.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1252, as introduced, Davis. Criminal trials.
   Existing law provides for the right to trial by jury. Existing law
allows a jury to be waived in a criminal cause by the consent of
both parties expressed in open court by the defendant and the
defendant's counsel. Existing law requires that when a jury trial is
waived, the judge before whom the trial is had shall announce his or
her findings upon the issues of fact in substantially the form
prescribed for the general verdict of a jury.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 1167 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   1167.  When a jury trial is waived, the judge or justice before
whom the trial is had shall, at the conclusion thereof, announce his
 or her  findings upon the issues of fact, which shall be in
substantially the form prescribed for the general verdict of a jury
and shall be entered upon the minutes.