Burglary
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Daire v. Lattimore (2015)
Most recently applied in 11 Cal. 5th 510 - People v. Vivar (May 2021)
Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 15, Sec. 355
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Burglary is punishable as follows:
(a) Burglary in the first degree: by imprisonment in the state prison for two, four, or six years.
(b) Burglary in the second degree: by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year or imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.