Exposición Indecente y Consecuencias Legales en California

Explicación Simple

Si alguien muestra sus partes íntimas en público o ayuda a otros a hacerlo, puede ser arrestado. Hacer esto en lugares donde hay otras personas que podrían sentirse ofendidas es lo que la ley prohíbe.

Es como si alguien decidiera hacer un espectáculo de magia en medio de una cena familiar, sin avisar a nadie. La sorpresa y la incomodidad serían muy similares a lo que siente alguien al ver una exposición indecente.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que Juan decide quitarse la camiseta en un parque lleno de gente. Aunque pensó que era solo para divertirse, muchas personas a su alrededor se sienten incómodas y lo reportan. Juan podría enfrentar problemas legales por su acción.

Penalidades

Puede ser un delito menor con hasta un año de cárcel o un delito mayor si hay reincidencia.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

Penal Code - PEN PART 1. OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS [25 - 680.4] ( Part 1 enacted 1872. ) TITLE 9. OF CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON INVOLVING SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC DECENCY AND GOOD MORALS [261 - 368.7] ( Heading of Title 9 amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1111, Sec. 2. ) CHAPTER 8. Indecent Exposure, Obscene Exhibitions, and Bawdy and Other Disorderly Houses [314 - 318.6] ( Heading of Chapter 8 amended by Stats. 1961, Ch. 2147. ) 314. Every person who willfully and lewdly, either: 1. Exposes his person, or the private parts thereof, in any public place, or in any place where there are present other persons to be offended or annoyed thereby; or, 2. Procures, counsels, or assists any person so to expose himself or take part in any model artist exhibition, or to make any other exhibition of himself to public view, or the view of any number of persons, such as is offensive to decency, or is adapted to excite to vicious or lewd thoughts or acts, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who violates subdivision 1 of this section after having entered, without consent, an inhabited dwelling house, or trailer coach as defined in Section 635 of the Vehicle Code, or the inhabited portion of any other building, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison, or in the county jail not exceeding one year. Upon the second and each subsequent conviction under subdivision 1 of this section, or upon a first conviction under subdivision 1 of this section after a previous conviction under Section 288, every person so convicted is guilty of a felony, and is punishable by imprisonment in state prison. (Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1113, Sec. 2.)