Any person who willfully violates his or her written promise to appear or a lawfully granted continuance of his or her promise to appear in court is guilty of a misdemeanor, regardless of the disposition of the charge upon which he or she was originally arrested.
Cal. Penal Code § 853.7
Citations for Misdemeanors
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 157 Cal. App. 4th 728 - Schmidlin v. City of Palo Alto (2008)
Most recently applied in 219 Cal. Rptr. 3d 90 - People v. Moore (June 2017)
Amended by Stats. 1988, Ch. 403, Sec. 2.
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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.
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