by admin | Oct 15, 2017 | California Laws, Criminal laws, Fraud
The crime of prescription fraud, also called doctor shopping, is defined by Secs 11173 and 11153 of the Health and Safety Code of California as the use of multiple providers and pharmacies to get multiple prescriptions for controlled substances, without the providers...
by admin | Oct 15, 2017 | California Laws, Criminal laws, Fraud
According to Sec 1341, Chapter 63, Part 1, Title 18 of the United States Code, mail fraud is committed by: “Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent...
by admin | Oct 15, 2017 | California Laws, Criminal laws, Criminal Practice Areas, Firearms
Sec 12280 of the California Penal Code has instituted a ban on the manufacture, sale, lending and/or possession of assault weapons, Browning machine gun rifles and their like except in very specific circumstances. The crime is committed when the following elements are...
by admin | Oct 15, 2017 | California Laws, Criminal laws
Sec 12022.53 of the California Penal Code is the state’s action to impose mandatory minimum prison terms for the use of firearms in the commission of certain dangerous and/or violent felonies. This is also called as California’s “use a gun and you’re done law” and is...
by admin | Oct 15, 2017 | California Laws, Criminal Articles, Criminal laws
Sec 236 of the California Penal Code specifically prohibits the wrongful restraint, confinement or detention of another person without their consent. This commonly is known as “false imprisonment”. This does not mean that the individual would need to be in jail to...
by admin | Oct 15, 2017 | California Laws, Criminal laws, Criminal Process
Sec 470b of the California Penal Code reads as follows: “Every person who displays or causes or permits to be displayed or has in his possession any driver’s license or identification card of the type enumerated in the Section 470a with the intent that such driver’s...
