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Destructive Device: Definition Not Required
December 4th, 2015

People v. Adams (2009) 170 Cal App. 4th 893, held that a court has no sua sponte duty to define “destructive device” beyond the definition provided in PC 16460(a)(5). The Court of Appeal affirmed a conviction for offering to sell a destructive device where the trial court used CC 2575, an instruction identical to CC […]


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