California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Bradder, B254835 (Cal. App. 2015):
The Attorney General suggests that embezzlement falls within this category, as its "statutory scheme . . . evinces a legislative intent to punish a course of conduct rather than discrete events." But it cites no cases applying this exception to embezzlement, or to any other form of theft. Moreover, it acknowledges that the statute defining embezzlement6 does not bear the standard indicia of an intent to punish a course of conductspecifically, the statute does not "focus[] on a goal or effect of an offense, rather than the means," and the gravamen of the offense does not lie "in its cumulative effect," as is true of the offenses above. (People v. Sanchez (2001) 94 Cal.App.4th 622, 632.)
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