What is the difference between Section 10851 and Section 503 of the California Vehicle Code when it comes to criminalizing the taking or use of an automobile without the owner's consent?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Bullard, 260 Cal.Rptr.3d 153, 460 P.3d 262, 9 Cal.5th 94 (Cal. 2020):
For much of the 20th century, section 10851 (previously numbered as Vehicle Code section 503) served as one of three overlapping statutes criminalizing the taking or use of an automobile without the owners consent. The primary difference between the statutes, we explained, concerned the degree of wrongfulness of the defendants intent. ( People v. Kehoe (1949) 33 Cal.2d 711, 714, 204 P.2d 321.) The least
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