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The crime of lewd conduct as stated in Penal Code Section 647(a) is touching or soliciting someone to touch the genitals, buttocks, or female breast with the intent to sexually arouse, gratify, annoy, or offend, while in a public place or in public view. |
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No skin-to-skin contact is required. Touching can be through clothing. |
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To arrest a subject for the crime of lewd conduct, the necessary crime elements include: |
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• any person who solicits or engages • in lewd conduct • in a public place • or a place open to public view. |
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Lewd conduct is covered under Penal Code |
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Lewd conduct is a what kind of crime? |
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An area that can be seen by others. |
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Public place is defined as? |
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any area that is accessible to the general public such as a park, street, building open to the public, movie theaters, department stores, or public offices. |
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A man sat on a park bench. When women walk past him, he openly rubbed his genitals for them to see while saying “hey check this out.” The man has committed the crime of lewd conduct because he rubbed his genitals in an attempt to arouse while in a public place. |
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Invasion Of Pricacy definition. |
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Any person who looks through a hole or opening, into, or otherwise views, by means of any instrumentality of the interior of any other area in which the occupant has a reasonable expectation of privacy, with the intent to invade the privacy of a person or persons inside. |
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invasion of privacy elements |
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• looking through • a hole or opening or otherwise viewed by means of any instrumentality into a private area • with the intent to invade the privacy of people therein |
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Invasion of privacy is covered under Penal Code? |
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Invasion of privacy is what kind of crime? |
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Example of Invasion of Privacy: |
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A man climbed into a tree and looked around using his binoculars. He looked toward a nearby building and noticed that a window opened into a bathroom. He focused on the window and saw a woman taking a shower. He has committed the crime of invasion of privacy because he continued to look into an open window even when he realized it was a private bathroom. |
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The crime of prostitution occurs when? |
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a person solicits another person or agrees to engage in any lewd act for money or other consideration |
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Prostitution Crime Elements |
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• any person who solicits or • agrees to engage in, or • engages in • any act of prostitution, or • some act is agreed to and done in the furtherance of prostitution. |
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Prostitution is covered under Penal Code |
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Prostitution is a (Felony, Misdemeanor) |
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To seek to induce or try to obtain |
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Any person who loiters, prowls, or wanders on private property of another with out visible or lawful business for the purpose of committing a crime. |
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Any person loitering, prowling, or wandering on private property and peeking into doors or windows without lawful business with the intent to commit a crime |
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Define Disturbing the peace |
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Disturbing the peace occurs when a person’s activities cause offense, disturbance, or obstruction in a public area, such as unlawful fighting, making loud or unreasonable noise, or using offensive words. |
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Define Obstruction of a public way |
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A person willfully and maliciously obstructs the free movement of another person or any street, sidewalk, or other public place. |
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All PC in this section are misdemeanors |
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