Talk:California criminal law

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The version of 04:49, 11 September 2007 (immediately prior to my edit) indicated that an infraction is a "crime" not punishable by imprisonment. This is not what Cal. Penal Code 19.6 says; it does not define an infraction as a subset of "crime" at all. This is a relevant distinction.

• Nevermind. See section 16 in combination with 19.6

I'm not convinced. It seems like an infraction is a public offense but not a crime. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.243.191.58 (talk) 18:01, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Suggest fixing "An infraction is a public offense, but arguably not a crime."

If the argument is that an infraction is not a crime because it is not punishable by imprisonment, then a misdemeanor is not a crime because it is not punishable by death.

Felonies, misdemeanors and infractions are listed as crimes in 16.

Perhaps confusion is arising from the uncommon use of "either of" from 1872 in PC 15, whereas today we might use "any of". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.169.228.192 (talk) 21:11, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

Legal references to commercial site should be replaced with official State of California site

All of the current references in this article are to http://www.oclaw.org, an advertisement-supported site.

Cornell's non-profit Legal Information Institute points to authoritative open access sources for California law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/states/california

The relevant link to California codes is here: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes.xhtml

Suggest replacing all commercialized legal links with official State of California sources. -- 02:42, 30 November 2015 (UTC) Paulscrawl (talk) 02:44, 30 November 2015 (UTC)