You’ve started your California DUI trial. Everything seems to be going in your favor and you’re feeling good about your choice to plead not guilty. Then the case takes a turn and you’re beginning to question your decision to take the case to trial. You begin thinking about spending a couple of days in a county jail and realize that you’re desperate to avoid a conviction. In a panic, you think, “Maybe I should try to bribe one of the jurors to ‘hang’ the case…”
Bad move. A charge for bribing a juror under Penal Code 92 PC, one of California’s bribery laws is a felony. A conviction for bribing a juror under California Penal Code 92 PC subjects you to two to four years in the state prison.
California’s bribery laws are severe and apply to a wide variety of situations, including bribing witnesses, jurors, judges, and other public officials. So before you offer that juror money or something else of value to influence his vote, you may want to think twice…it’s probably not worth the risk.
