February 25, 2011
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects every person from being free from unreasonable searches and seizures by law enforcement. This means the police must have either a warrant, or some other legitimate reason to be able to search anything in which a person has a “reasonable expectation of privacy”. One of the reasons […]
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Elements of the Crime In order to be convicted of California Penal Code Section 594, vandalism, the prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused person: 1) maliciously 2) defaced, destroyed, or damaged 3) the property of another. To act “maliciously” means that the person acted with the intent to cause the damage […]
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