What is the difference between false imprisonment and misdemeanor false imprisonment?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Clarkson, H045371 (Cal. App. 2020):
an element of both felony and misdemeanor false imprisonment[,] [m]isdemeanor false imprisonment becomes a felony only where the force used is greater than that reasonably necessary to effect the restraint. In such circumstances the force is defined as 'violence' with the false imprisonment affected by such violence a felony." (People v. Hendrix (1992) 8 Cal.App.4th 1458, 1462.)
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