Is battery on a peace officer a crime of moral turpitude?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Williams, 72 Cal.App.4th 1460, 86 Cal.Rptr.2d 62 (Cal. App. 1999):
The prosecution argued that in People v. Lindsay (1989) 209 Cal.App.3d 849, 857, 257 Cal.Rptr. 529, the court held that the crime of battery on a peace officer (section 243, subdivision (c)) was a crime of moral turpitude, 4 and because that crime was the one most closely analogous to section 69, section 69 should be also.
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