Criminal procedure: jurisdiction of public offenses.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details on how courts will decide jurisdiction or any further actions after the bill passed legislature.

Criminal Procedure: Where Cases Can Be Tried

This law changes where certain criminal cases involving sexual battery, indecent exposure, and offenses against children can be tried.

What This Bill Does

• Changes rules for trying multiple sexual battery incidents in any court that has information on at least one incident.
• Expands this rule to include indecent exposure and annoying or molesting a child.

Who It Names or Affects

• Courts dealing with sexual battery, indecent exposure, and offenses against children.
• People charged with multiple sexual battery incidents, indecent exposure, or offenses against children.
• Victims of such crimes.

Terms To Know

Jurisdiction

The area where a court has the authority to hear cases.

Joinable Offenses

Crimes that can be tried together in one case.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not specify how courts will decide which jurisdiction is appropriate.
• The bill's final status and any further actions are unclear as of the last update date.

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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