California · Penal Code

PEN §665: Sections 663 and 664 do not protect a person who, in attempting unsuccessfully to commit a crime, accomplishes the commission of another and different crime, whether greater or less in guilt, from suf

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This statute clarifies that someone who fails to commit an intended crime but commits a different crime instead cannot use certain legal protections and must face punishment for the crime actually committed.

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Sections 663 and 664 do not protect a person who, in attempting unsuccessfully to commit a crime, accomplishes the commission of another and different crime, whether greater or less in guilt, from suffering the punishment prescribed by law for the crime committed.

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