[Download] "People V. Heitzman" by Supreme Court Of California # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: People V. Heitzman
- Author : Supreme Court Of California
- Release Date : January 30, 1994
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 84 KB
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Penal Code section 368, subdivision (a),*fn1 is one component of a multi-faceted legislative response to the problem of elder abuse. The statute imposes felony criminal liability on "any person who, under circumstances or conditions likely to produce great bodily harm or death, willfully causes or permits any elder or dependent adult, with knowledge that he or she is an elder or dependent adult, to suffer, or inflicts thereon unjustifiable pain or mental suffering, or having the care or custody of any elder or dependent adult, willfully causes or permits the person or health of the elder or dependent adult to be injured, or willfully causes or permits the elder or dependent adult to be placed in a situation such that his or her person or health is endangered . . . ."*fn2