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California has two main arson laws. Penal Code 451 defines arson as willfully and maliciously setting a fire or helping someone to burn a structure, forest land, or property.
Jones (2000) 82 Cal.App.4th 663, a California Appeals court held that the charge of evading a police officer causing death was not an acceptable felony under the felony murder rule, as the offense was a felony specifically because it caused the death of a pedestrian.
John Leonard Orr (born 1948 or 1949) [1] is an American convicted serial arsonist, mass murderer and former firefighter.A fire captain and arson investigator in Glendale, California, Orr was convicted of serial arson and four counts of murder; [2] he is believed to have set nearly 2,000 fires in a thirty-year arson spree, most of them between 1984 and 1991, making him the most prolific serial ...
Volumes of the Thomson West annotated version of the California Penal Code; the other popular annotated version is Deering's, which is published by LexisNexis. The Penal Code of California forms the basis for the application of most criminal law, criminal procedure, penal institutions, and the execution of sentences, among other things, in the American state of California.
The suspected arsonist accused of setting a 34,000-acre wildfire east of Los Angeles may have started other fires, authorities say. Justin Wayne Halstenberg was charged Tuesday following a San ...
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The Summary. California’s Park Fire, the fourth-largest in state history, was its biggest ever allegedly caused by arson. This year, nearly half of the 1 million acres burned in the state were ...
Case name Citation Date decided Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman: 451 U.S. 1: 1981: United Parcel Service, Inc. v. Mitchell: 451 U.S. 56