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California Code
PENAL CODE
SECTION 697-698




697. Public offenses may be prevented by the intervention of the
officers of justice:
1. By requiring security to keep the peace;
2. By forming a police in cities and towns, and by requiring their
attendance in exposed places;
3. By suppressing riots.



698. When the officers of justice are authorized to act in the
prevention of public offenses, other persons, who, by their command,
act in their aid, are justified in so doing.



 




Dr Conrad Murray has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Murray has admitted giving Michael Jackson the powerful hospital anaesthetic propofol. He has been convicted of homicide through his acts of criminal negligence under California penal code 192 (b).
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