Legal Opinion
People v. Pham
California Court of Appeal
Decided December 28, 2009No. G040848PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BEDSWORTH, Acting P. J.
There appears to be no limit to the ability of our species to devise new and different bad things to do to each other. Here we deal with a criminal hybridization of fraud and molestation first addressed by legislation in 2002. The issues presented appear to be of first impression in California.
Chiropractor Chi Van Pham was convicted of sexual battery by fraud (Pen. Code, § 243.4, subd. (c)) for touching the intimate body parts of his patients while purporting to examine them. He contends there is insufficient evidence to support the convictions because he did not…
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