California v. Potts
Annotate this CaseDefendant Jerad Potts was convicted by jury of, inter alia, escape from his home detention program. He was sentenced to an eight-month term on the escape conviction as part of an aggregate term of four years eight months, which included a sentence on another case. On appeal, defendant challenged the escape conviction, arguing the trial court erred in refusing to instruct the jury that his escape conviction required the willful failure to return to his place of confinement no later than the period he was authorized to be away. The Court of Appeal concluded that any instructional error was harmless.
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