California Penal Code

§ 273.84

PEN § 273.84 Effective Jan 1, 2001Title 9 · Part 1 · Ch. 2.5

Statute text

Each district attorney’s or city attorney’s office establishing a spousal abuser prosecution unit and receiving state support under this chapter shall adopt and pursue the following policies for spousal abuser cases:

(a)All reasonable prosecutorial efforts shall be made to resist the pretrial release of a charged defendant meeting spousal abuser selection criteria.

(b)All reasonable prosecutorial efforts shall be made to persuade the court to impose the most severe authorized sentence upon a person convicted after prosecution as a spousal abuser. In the prosecution of an intrafamily sexual abuse case, discretion may be exercised as to the type and nature of sentence recommended to the court.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 135, Sec. 131. Effective January 1, 2001.