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Section 187 (often referred to in slang simply as 187) of the California Penal Code defines the crime of murder.The number is commonly pronounced by reading the digits separately as "one-eight-seven", or "one-eighty-seven", rather than "one hundred eighty-seven".
The law on the crime of murder in the U.S. state of California is defined by sections 187 through 191 of the California Penal Code. [1]The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that in the year 2020, the state had a murder rate near the median for the entire country.
Felony murder can also be prosecuted for felonies not in this list, provided the felony is “inherently dangerous”. Whether a felony is inherently dangerous or not is done on a case-by-case basis and is found by the jury. Felonies that are inherently dangerous but not included in the above list are punished under PC 187, second degree murder.
The Penal Code enacted by the California State Legislature in February 1872 was derived from a penal code proposed by the New York code commission in 1865 which is frequently called the Field Penal Code after the most prominent of the code commissioners, David Dudley Field II (who did draft the commission's other proposed codes). [1]
The following codes are used in California. They are from the California Penal Code except where noted below. [4] In the 1970s, the television show Adam-12 was considered so authentic in its portrayal of Los Angeles PD officers and their procedures that excerpts from the shows were used as police training films around the country. [5]
187 (number) 187 (slang), a slang of the California Penal Code that defines the crime of murder; 187 BC, a year from the Roman calendar; 187, a character in the film Dracula 3000; 187 Lamberta, a main-belt asteroid
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The film's name comes from the California Penal Code Section 187, which defines murder. The original screenplay was written in 1995 by Scott Yagemann, a Los Angeles area high school substitute teacher for seven years. He wrote the screenplay after an incident when a violent transfer student had threatened to kill him and his family.