Plain English Breakdown
The official summary explicitly states the additional prison term for the murder enhancement is an 'unspecified period of time.'
AB-2683: Crimes Involving Child Endangerment and Murder
This bill makes it a crime for adults to ask minors to commit felonies and adds extra prison time if a child is murdered while other children are present.
What This Bill Does
- Makes any adult who asks or recruits a minor to commit a felony guilty of child endangerment.
- Adds an extra prison sentence of 2, 4, or 6 years on top of other punishments for the new child endangerment crime.
- Imposes an additional and consecutive term in state prison if a murder victim is a minor and at least one other minor was present during the killing.
- Extends the date when prisoners with indeterminate sentences can be considered for parole due to this new enhancement.
Who It Names or Affects
- Adults who ask or recruit minors to commit felonies
- People convicted of murdering a child while other children were present
Terms To Know
- Sentence enhancement
- Extra prison time added on top of the standard punishment for specific crimes.
- Solicits or recruits
- Asking, hiring, or persuading someone else to commit a crime.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill does not state the exact number of years for the extra prison time in murder cases involving multiple minors.
- The bill states no reimbursement is required from the state but only gives 'a specified reason' without explaining what that reason is.