AB 2836, as introduced, Chu. Crimes: obstruction of justice: threatening a juror.
Existing law makes a person who threatens a juror with respect to a criminal proceeding in which a verdict has been rendered and who has the intent and apparent ability to carry out the threat so as to cause the target of the threat to reasonably fear for his or her safety or the safety of his or her immediate family, guilty of a public offense, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, or by imprisonment in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years, by a fine of no more than $10,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 95.1 of the Penal Code is amended to
2read:
begin deleteEvery end deletebegin insertA end insertperson who threatens a juror with respect to a
4criminal proceeding in which a verdict has been rendered and who
5has the intent and apparent ability to carry out the threat so as to
P2 1cause the target of the threat to reasonably fear for his or her safety
2or the safety of his or her immediate family, is guilty of a public
3offense and shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for
4not more than one year, or by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision
5(h) of Section 1170,begin delete orend delete by a finebegin delete not exceedingend deletebegin insert
of no more thanend insert
6 ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by both that imprisonment and
7fine.
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