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Cal. Penal Code § 243.7

Current through 2025–2026 Regular Session (leginfo weekly dump, 2026-07-12)

Part of Chapter 9: Assault and Battery, California Penal Code.

Full text of Cal. Penal Code § 243.7

Statutory text current through the 2025–2026 Regular Session (leginfo weekly dump, 2026-07-12). This publication reproduces the official statutory text; it is not the official statutes of the State of California.

Cal. Penal Code § 243.7Primary source, current through the 2025–2026 Regular Session (leginfo weekly dump, 2026-07-12)
Any person who is a party to a civil or criminal action in which a jury has been selected to try the case and who, while the legal action is pending or after the conclusion of the trial commits a battery against any juror or alternate juror who was selected and sworn in that legal action shall be punished by a fine not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000), or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, or by the imprisonment in the state prison for 16 months, or for two or three years.

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