CA · jury_instructions
CALCRIM No. 1862
Return of Property Not a Defense to Theft (Pen. Code,
§§ 512, 513)
If you conclude that the People have proved that the defendant
committed <insert charged theft crime>, the return or offer
to return (some/all) of the property wrongfully obtained is not a defense
to that charge.
New January 2006; Revised October 2010
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- calcrim-2019
- Content hash
e4370f33b62ea7b0f7b1f70b43fe2c87e5616a4d2a19f5746fa4c5f502ce7d66
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