Supreme Court of California

The term "recurring access", as used in Penal Code section 288.5 (penalizing the continuous sexual abuse of a child by one with "recurring access" to the child) does not carry a technical meaning requiring the court to give sua sponte clarifying instruction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/22/2002
• Published 07/22/2002

Judges

•  CHIN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Athena Shudde, under appointment by the Supreme Court, San Diego, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner and Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Carol Wendelin Pollack and Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorneys General, Chung Mar, John R. Gorey and Sharlene A. Honnaka, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.