California Assembly Bill AB2836 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 2836INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Chu FEBRUARY 19, 2016 An act to amend Section 95.1 of the Penal Code, relating to crimes. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2836, as introduced, Chu. Crimes: obstruction of justice: threatening a juror. Existing law makes a person who threatens a juror with respect to a criminal proceeding in which a verdict has been rendered and who has the intent and apparent ability to carry out the threat so as to cause the target of the threat to reasonably fear for his or her safety or the safety of his or her immediate family, guilty of a public offense, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, or by imprisonment in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years, by a fine of no more than $10,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 95.1 of the Penal Code is amended to read: 95.1.  Every   A  person who threatens a juror with respect to a criminal proceeding in which a verdict has been rendered and who has the intent and apparent ability to carry out the threat so as to cause the target of the threat to reasonably fear for his or her safety or the safety of his or her immediate family, is guilty of a public offense and shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, or by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170,  or  by a fine  not exceeding   of no more than  ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by both that imprisonment and fine.