LD6 Flashcards
To arrest a subject for theft, the necessary crime elements include:
Code:
the taking and carrying away of personal property of another without consent with intent to permanently deprive the owner. 484
Property can include
money, labor, animals, crops, or real or personal items.
Real property means
land and immovable property, affixed to or growing from that land. It may be otherwise referred to as real estate.
Personal property includes
any movable object(s) owned by an individual; all property other than real estate.
Control is the ability
to exercise a restraining or directing influence over something. Theft requires that the property that is taken be under the control of the person it was stolen from, not necessarily the owner of the property and that control is transferred to the thief.
Grand theft, what$?
Property value exceeding $950 (Penal Code Section 487(a))
felony
487
Agricultural products, what$?
exceeding $250 (e.g., domestic fowl, fruit, nuts, vegetables, etc.) (Penal Code Section 487(b)(1)(A))
Aquacutural products exceeding $250 (e.g., fish, algae, etc.) (Penal Code Section 487(b)(1)(B)(2))
Property taken over a 12 consecutive month period, what$?
totaling $950 or more and taken by a servant, agent or employee of the owner (Penal Code Section 487(b)(1)(B) (3))
Property taken from the person of another only if greater than $950 (Penal Code Section 487(c))
Grand theft
Certain designated livestock regardless of the value (e.g., horses, cattle, sheep, etc.)
Motor vehicle$?
Firearm$?
(Penal Code Section 487a(a)) 487a(a) Motor vehicles Felony: greater than $950 Misdemeanor: $950 or less) 487(d)(1) Firearms Felony: greater than $950 Misdemeanor: $950 or less) 487(d)(2) Petty theft All other thefts not categorized as grand theft misdemeanor 488 Petty theft with prior theft-related conviction and jail time misdemeanor* 666
484
- (a) Every person who shall feloniously steal, take, carry,
lead, or drive away the personal property of another, or who shall
fraudulently appropriate property which has been entrusted to him or
her, or who shall knowingly and designedly, by any false or
fraudulent representation or pretense, defraud any other person of
money, labor or real or personal property, or who causes or procures
others to report falsely of his or her wealth or mercantile character
and by thus imposing upon any person, obtains credit and thereby
fraudulently gets or obtains possession of money, or property or
obtains the labor or service of another, is guilty of theft. In
determining the value of the property obtained, for the purposes of
this section, the reasonable and fair market value shall be the test,
and in determining the value of services received the contract price
shall be the test. If there be no contract price, the reasonable and
going wage for the service rendered shall govern. For the purposes
of this section, any false or fraudulent representation or pretense
made shall be treated as continuing, so as to cover any money,
property or service received as a result thereof, and the complaint,
information or indictment may charge that the crime was committed on
any date during the particular period in question. The hiring of any
additional employee or employees without advising each of them of
every labor claim due and unpaid and every judgment that the employer
has been unable to meet shall be prima facie evidence of intent to
defraud.
487
Grand theft is theft committed in any of the following cases:
(a) When the money, labor, or real or personal property taken is of a value exceeding nine hundred fifty dollars ($950), except as provided in subdivision (b).
(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), grand theft is committed in any of the following cases:
(1) (A) When domestic fowls, avocados, olives, citrus or deciduous fruits, other fruits, vegetables, nuts, artichokes, or other farm crops are taken of a value exceeding two hundred fifty dollars ($250).
(B) For the purposes of establishing that the value of domestic fowls, avocados, olives, citrus or deciduous fruits, other fruits, vegetables, nuts, artichokes, or other farm crops under this paragraph exceeds two hundred fifty dollars ($250), that value may be shown by the presentation of credible evidence which establishes that on the day of the theft domestic fowls, avocados, olives, citrus or deciduous fruits, other fruits, vegetables, nuts, artichokes, or other farm crops of the same variety and weight exceeded two hundred fifty dollars ($250) in wholesale value.
(2) When fish, shellfish, mollusks, crustaceans, kelp, algae, or other aquacultural products are taken from a commercial or research operation which is producing that product, of a value exceeding two hundred fifty dollars ($250).
(3) Where the money, labor, or real or personal property is taken by a servant, agent, or employee from his or her principal or employer and aggregates nine hundred fifty dollars ($950) or more in any 12 consecutive month period.
(c) When the property is taken from the person of another.
(d) When the property taken is any of the following:
(1) An automobile.
(2) A firearm.
488
Theft in other cases is petty theft.
484e(a)
(a) Every person who, with intent to defraud, sells, transfers, or conveys, an access card, without the cardholder’s or issuer’s consent, is guilty of grand theft.
cardholder’s or issuer’s consent, with the intent to use it fraudulently, is guilty of grand theft.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 468, Sec. 9. Effective January 1, 1999.)
484e(b)
(b) Every person, other than the issuer, who within any consecutive 12-month period, acquires access cards issued in the names of four or more persons which he or she has reason to know were taken or retained under circumstances which constitute a violation of subdivision (a),
484e(d)
(d) Every person who acquires or retains possession of access card account information with respect to an access card validly issued to another person, without the cardholder’s or issuer’s consent, with the intent to use it fraudulently, is guilty of grand theft.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 468, Sec. 9. Effective January 1, 1999.)
484f(a)
(a) Every person who, with the intent to defraud, designs, makes, alters, or embosses a counterfeit access card or utters or otherwise attempts to use a counterfeit access card is guilty of forgery.