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10.2.13: California PC 203 Mayhem

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    A person is guilty of aggravated mayhem when he or she unlawfully, under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the physical or psychological well-being of another person, intentionally causes permanent disability or disfigurement of another human being or deprives a human being of a limb, organ, or member of his or her body. For purposes of this section, it is not necessary to prove an intent to kill. Aggravated mayhem is a felony punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for life with the possibility of parole.

     

    CALCRIM No. 801. Mayhem (Pen. Code, § 203)

    The defendant is charged [in Count ] with mayhem [in violation of Penal Code section 203].

    To prove that the defendant is guilty of mayhem, the People must prove that the defendant unlawfully and maliciously:

    [1. Removed a part of someone’s body(;/.)]

    [OR]

    [2. Disabled or made useless a part of someone’s body and the disability was more than slight or temporary(;/.)]

    [OR]

    [3. Permanently disfigured someone(;/.)]

    [OR]

    [4. Cut or disabled someone’s tongue(;/.)]

    [OR]

    [5. Slit someone’s (nose[, ]/ear[,]/ [or] lip) (;/.)]

    [OR]

    [6. Put out someone’s eye or injured someone’s eye in a way that so significantly reduced (his/her) ability to see that the eye was useless for the purpose of ordinary sight.]

    Someone acts maliciously when he or she intentionally does a wrongful act or when he or she acts with the unlawful intent to annoy or injure someone else.[A disfiguring injury may be permanent even if it can be repaired by medical procedures.

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