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  2. Police code - Wikipedia

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    Police code. A police code is a brevity code, usually numerical or alphanumerical, used to transmit information between law enforcement over police radio systems in the United States. Examples of police codes include "10 codes" (such as 10-4 for "okay" or "acknowledged"—sometimes written X4 or X-4), signals, incident codes, response codes, or ...

  3. Murder in California law - Wikipedia

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    The law on the crime of murder in the U.S. state of California is defined by sections 187 through 191 of the California Penal Code. [ 1] The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that in the year 2020, the state had a murder rate near the median for the entire country. [ 2]

  4. Murder in United States law - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the law for murder varies by jurisdiction. In many US jurisdictions there is a hierarchy of acts, known collectively as homicide, of which first-degree murder and felony murder [1] are the most serious, followed by second-degree murder and, in a few states, third-degree murder, which in other states is divided into voluntary manslaughter, and involuntary manslaughter such ...

  5. 187 (slang) - Wikipedia

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    187 (slang) Section 187 (often referred to in slang simply as 187) of the California Penal Code defines the crime of murder. The number is commonly pronounced by reading the digits separately as "one-eight-seven", or "one-eighty-seven", rather than "one hundred eighty-seven". The number "187" has been used by gangs throughout the United States ...

  6. Murder in Washington state law - Wikipedia

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    Murder in Washington state law constitutes the intentional killing, under circumstances defined by law, of people within or under the jurisdiction of the U.S. state of Washington . In the state of Washington, a person may be convicted of first-degree murder when there is a premeditated intent to cause the death of another person.

  7. Felony murder rule in California - Wikipedia

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    Since the enactment of Senate Bill 1437 on September 30, 2018, [2] felony murder can only be prosecuted in certain specific circumstances if at least one of these is true: The defendant directly killed a person. The defendant, with the intent to have the victim killed, "aided, abetted, counseled, commanded, induced, solicited, requested, or ...

  8. California Penal Code - Wikipedia

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    The Penal Code of California forms the basis for the application of most criminal law, criminal procedure, penal institutions, and the execution of sentences, among other things, in the American state of California. It was originally enacted in 1872 as one of the original four California Codes, and has been substantially [vague] amended and ...

  9. Felony murder rule - Wikipedia

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    The rule of felony murder is a legal doctrine in some common law jurisdictions that broadens the crime of murder: when someone is killed (regardless of intent to kill) in the commission of a dangerous or enumerated crime (called a felony in some jurisdictions), the offender, and also the offender's accomplices or co-conspirators, may be found guilty of murder.