Criminal procedure: jurisdiction of public offenses.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide information on how this change will affect cases already in progress or specify if it covers all types of criminal offenses.

Criminal Procedure: Where Cases Can Be Tried

This law changes where certain criminal cases involving sexual battery, indecent exposure, and annoying/molesting a child can be tried.

What This Bill Does

• Changes the jurisdiction for multiple violations of sexual battery to any place where at least one offense occurred, regardless of whether all offenses have the same defendant and victim.
• Expands jurisdictional provisions to include cases involving indecent exposure or annoying/molesting a child.

Who It Names or Affects

• People who commit sexual battery, indecent exposure, or annoying/molesting a child.
• Courts dealing with these types of cases.

Terms To Know

Jurisdiction

The area where a court has the power to make decisions about legal matters.

Joinable offenses

Crimes that can be tried together in one case because they are related.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not specify how this change will affect cases already in progress.
• The bill does not cover all types of criminal offenses, only specific ones like sexual battery and indecent exposure.

Official Summary Text

AB 2147, as introduced, Schiavo.
Criminal procedure: jurisdiction of public offenses.
Existing law provides that if more than one violation of certain specified offenses, including, among others, sexual battery, occurs in more than one jurisdictional territory, and the defendant and the victim are the same for all of the offenses, jurisdiction for any of those offenses and any other properly joinable offenses may be in any jurisdiction where at least one of the offenses occurred. Existing law also provides that if more than one violation of certain other specified offenses occur in more than one jurisdictional territory, jurisdiction for any of those offenses and any other properly joinable offenses may be in any jurisdiction where at least one of the offenses occurred, regardless of whether the defendant and the victim are the same for all of the offenses.
This bill would instead provide that the appropriate jurisdiction for more than one violation of sexual battery may be in any jurisdiction where at
least one of the offenses occurred, without regard for whether all of the offenses have the same defendant and victim. The bill would also make that jurisdictional provision applicable if there is more than one violation of indecent exposure or of annoying or molesting a child.

Current Bill Text

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