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The People v. Williams

California Court of Appeal

Decided August 8, 2013No. F062575PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion

GOMES, J.

Section 386 of the Penal Code proscribes the unlawful construction or maintenance of a fire protection system in a manner which threatens the safety of any occupant or user of a structure in the event of a fire. Since no reported case has ever addressed this crime, we must interpret the statute as a matter of first impression. Our opinion holds that Penal Code section 386 requires proof of the defendant’s specific intent to either (1) install a fire protection system which is known to be inoperable or (2) impair the effective operation of a fire protection system. We further…

2Cases cited49 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Burks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
  3. People v. WatsonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1956
  4. People v. BeemanCalifornia Supreme Court · 1984
  5. People v. RodriguesCalifornia Supreme Court · 1994

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. People v. JohnsonCalifornia Court of Appeal · 2015
  2. People v. WilsonCalifornia Court of Appeal · 2015
  3. People v. BollaertCalifornia Court of Appeal · 2016
  4. People v. MartinezCalifornia Court of Appeal · 2017
  5. People v. MunguiaCalifornia Court of Appeal · 2016

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