CA · jury_instructions
CALCRIM No. 2765
Misappropriation of Public Money (Pen. Code § 424(a)(1–7))
The defendant is charged [in Count] with misappropriating
public money [in violation of Penal Code section 424(a)( ) <insert
correct paragraph>].
To prove that the defendant is guilty of this crime, the People must
prove that:
1. The defendant was responsible for receiving, safekeeping,
transferring or distributing public money;
[AND]
2. The defendant, while responsible for receiving, safekeeping,
transferring or distributing public money:
2. <select the element that corresponds to the paragraph of Pen. Code
§ 424(a) with which defendant is charged>
<(a)(1)> [took some of that money for (his/her) own or someone
else’s use without legal authority;]
<(a)(2)> [loaned, made a profit from, or used some of that money
without legal authority;]
<(a)(3)> [knowingly kept a false account or made a false entry or
erasure in any account of the money.]
<(a)(4)> [fraudulently changed, falsified, hid, destroyed, or
obliterated an accounting of that money.]
<(a)(5)> [willfully refused or failed to disburse, on demand, any
public money in (his/her) control in response to a draft,
order, or warrant drawn upon that money by competent
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- calcrim-2019
- Content hash
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