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2012 California Codes
VEH - Vehicle Code
DIVISION 17 - OFFENSES AND PROSECUTION [40000.1 - 41610]
CHAPTER 5 - Defenses
Section 41400
CA Veh Code § 41400 (through 2013 Leg Sess) What's This?
Whenever any person is charged with a violation of this code, it is a sufficient defense to such charge if it appears that in a criminal prosecution in another state or by the Federal Government, founded upon the act or omission in respect to which he is on trial, he has been convicted or acquitted.
(Enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3.)
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