Legal Opinion
People v. Cornett
California Supreme Court
Decided April 30, 2012No. S189733PublishedCited by 110 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
CANTIL-SAKAUYE, C. J.
Penal Code section 288.7 makes it a felony, punishable by an indeterminate life term, for any adult to engage in specified sexual conduct “with a child who is 10 years of age or younger.” Does the phrase “10 years of age or younger” include within its protection a child victim who is 10 years of age but has not yet reached his or her 11th birthday? Or is the phrase limited, as the majority of the Court of Appeal held, to children molested prior to the day of or on the day of their 10th birthday? We conclude that the interpretation of the statutory phrase “10 years…
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