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In California, Cohn Increases Penalty For Brain Injury
SACRAMENTO - The Assembly Public Safety Committee passed Assembly Bill (AB) 1789, authored by Assembly Member Rebecca Cohn (D-Campbell) that would give the perpetrator of a crime resulting in permanent brain injury an additional 5 years in prison.
Currently, if a person is convicted of inflicting great bodily injury on another person, the penalty is a felony with a prison term of four to six years in prison with an additional 5 for causing the victim to become paralyzed or comatose. AB 1789 makes the additional enhancement a total of 10 years in state prison rather than the current 5 years.
Assembly Member Cohn told the Public Safety Committee, “Offenders should no longer be given leniency because victims have survived but yet are robbed of participating in routine activities of daily living such as feeding themselves, dressing themselves or simply taking themselves to the restroom.”
Cohn also told the committee, “The purpose of this bill is to raise the significance of the punishment if a victim becomes comatose or is no longer able to live a normal life.”
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A progressive degeneration of nerve cells in the part of the brain that helps control muscle movement.
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A chemical in the body that carries messages between the nerves and muscles; a neurotransmitter.
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