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2022 California Code
Penal Code - PEN
PART 3 - OF IMPRISONMENT AND THE DEATH PENALTY
TITLE 5 - OFFENSES RELATING TO PRISONS AND PRISONERS
CHAPTER 1 - Offenses by Prisoners
Section 4501.
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CA Penal Code § 4501 (2022)
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4501. (a) Except as provided in Section 4500, every person confined in the state prison of this state who commits an assault upon the person of another with a deadly weapon or instrument shall be guilty of a felony and shall be imprisoned in the state prison for two, four, or six years to be served consecutively.
(b) Except as provided in Section 4500, every person confined in the state prison of this state who commits an assault upon the person of another 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. 2015, Ch. 303, Sec. 401. (AB 731) Effective January 1, 2016.)
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