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2011 California Code
Penal Code
PART 3. OF IMPRISONMENT AND THE DEATH PENALTY [2000 - 10007]
CHAPTER 1. Offenses by Prisoners
Section 4501


CA Penal Code § 4501 (through 2012 Leg Sess) What's This?

Except as provided in Section 4500, every person confined in a state prison of this state who commits an assault upon the person of another with a deadly weapon or instrument, or by any means of force likely to produce great bodily injury, shall be guilty of a felony and shall be imprisoned in the state prison for two, four, or six years to be served consecutively.

(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 405, Sec. 17. Effective January 1, 2005.)

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