Lesser Included Offenses: Accusatory Pleading Test – Consideration of Evidence from Probable Cause Showing
March 14th, 2017
People v. Ortega (2015) 240 Cal.App.4th 956, 967 held that: “Due process principles of fairness, and defendant’s right to be prosecuted only on the noticed charges consistent with the probable cause showing supporting the accusatory pleading, compel us to agree that sexual battery is a lesser included offense of forcible sexual penetration where, as here, […]
Tags: CC 1045, CC Revisions, Lesser Included Offenses, Sex Crimes, Sexual Battery, Standard of Prejudice
Instruction on Necessary Intent to Commit the Act without Consent of the Victim
October 9th, 2015
People v. Dillon (2009) 174 Cal. App. 4th 1367, upheld a conviction using CC 890 in conjunction with CC 1045 dealing with the target offense of sexual penetration by force or fear. However, in 2010, when the same defendant in the Dillon case filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in a federal court, […]
Tags: CC 1045, CC 890, Defense Theory: Consent, Sample Instructions, Sex Crimes