Can a notary public be charged with possessing completed notary acknowledgements under section 475(a) of the California Penal Code?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Abrahamian, 258 Cal.Rptr.3d 670, 45 Cal.App.5th 314 (Cal. App. 2020):

any notary public." Appellant was charged with possessing completed notary acknowledgements under the second portion of section 475(a). She claims that the evidence is insufficient to support her conviction because, as a matter of law, the notary acknowledgments she possessed were incomplete. Since this is a pure legal question, we exercise our independent judgment. ( Danser v. Public Employees Retirement System (2015) 240 Cal.App.4th 885, 890, 193 Cal.Rptr.3d 117 ["we exercise independent judgment to address a pure legal question"].)

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