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California’s Proposition 47 created a new offense of shoplifting to deal with the overreach of charging people with burglary when they only walked in the open door of an open store to steal something, a crime which should have been charged as theft.<\/p>\n

A creative defendant charged with misuse of personal information tried to get his crime reclassified as shoplifting, and a Court of Appeal panel actually bought that. Today, the California Supreme Court unanimously reversed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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What we must decide here is whether a felony conviction for misuse of personal identifying information under section 530.5, subdivision (a) can be reduced to misdemeanor shoplifting under Proposition 47, which was approved by voters in the November 4, 2014 General Election. We hold that it cannot. Proposition 47 added section 459.5 to the Penal Code, which dictates that an \u201cact of shoplifting . . . shall be charged as shoplifting,\u201d and that \u201c[n]o person who is charged with shoplifting may also be charged with burglary or theft of the same property.\u201d (\u00a7 459.5, subd. (b).) Its prohibition applies only to \u201cburglary or theft\u201d offenses. (Ibid<\/em>.) Although misuse of identifying information is sometimes colloquially described as \u201cidentity theft,\u201d the language, context, and history of section 530.5, subdivision (a) tells us no \u201cburglary or theft\u201d offense is committed by virtue of a defendant violating that statute.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The case is People<\/em> v. Jimenez<\/em>, S249397, reversing 22 Cal.App.5th 1282<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

California’s Proposition 47 created a new offense of shoplifting to deal with the overreach of charging people with burglary when they only walked in the open door of an open store to steal something, a crime which should have been charged as theft. A creative defendant charged with misuse of personal information tried to get his crime reclassified as shoplifting, and a Court of Appeal panel actually bought that. 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