Blog Posts in California Law

Under California law, engaging in sexual intercourse with someone under the age of 18 is against the law. The only exception is if the underage person is married to the person they had sex with – ...

Under California law, people convicted of a crime may have the option of reopening their criminal proceedings to reverse the conviction to a dismissal in certain circumstances. Doing so will allow the ...

Under California law, there are four different forms of correctional supervision someone charged with a crime could face, parole, jail, prison, and probation. When a judge is determining how to ...

Up until 1977, California law heavily favored the idea of indeterminate sentences and stated or implied that the amount of time someone convicted of a crime should be kept in prison would be ...