Engaging in Lewd Conduct per California Penal Code PC 647(a) is the crime of unlawfully touching one’s own or another person’s genitals in public. This is a misdemeanor, but because of the sexual nature of the crime, can have very serious consequences on one’s future employment, education, and social life if you are convicted under…

This charge is fairly straightforward as you can imagine. If you’re unlawfully in possession of a stolen vehicle, you can be charged under this statute. This is almost always charged alongside California Vehicle Code Section 10851(a), Vehicle Theft. This charge is very similar, but there are some key differences that allow prosecutors to charge someone…

A prosecutor’s Brady obligations (Brady v. Maryland, 373 US 83 (1963)) in California include the duty to disclose material exculpatory evidence to the defense, even without a request. Penal Code Section 1054 also describes some of the California Prosecutor’s obligations. That material is often colloquially referred to as discovery. Legal discovery is a formal procedure that involves the…