University of California Irvine California Penal Code Section 215 Discussion

Your job is to teach your classmates about one California criminal statute from the set of laws in this link known as the

California Penal CodeLinks to an external site.

.  You will do this by making a discussion post that will consist of the verbatim text of the law and then an explanation in your own words of what you understand the law to mean (you will have researched your law so you should have a solid understanding of what it’s all about!) If you do not know what

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means, please click on the word and learn!   In your post, you must include one or two specific examples of how the law that you chose has been applied.  It could be in a legal court case, in a news story, in a movie, documentary, or some other viable, illustrative setting so your “students” (classmates) can understand how the law could be applied in context.  The name of the group of statutes where your research will take place is in this link to the

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