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2016 California Code
Penal Code - PEN
PART 2 - OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
TITLE 3 - ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS REGARDING CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
CHAPTER 1 - Of the Local Jurisdiction of Public Offenses
Section 793.

CA Penal Code § 793 (2016) What's This?

793. When an act charged as a public offense is within the jurisdiction of the United States, or of another state or territory of the United States, as well as of this state, a conviction or acquittal thereof in that other jurisdiction is a bar to the prosecution or indictment in this state.

(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 511, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 2005.)

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