Legal Question in Criminal Law in California

$800. But you could be charged with burglary for entering a building with the intent to cash a bad check for $1, which would also be a felony if you were dumb enough to admit to the cops that that was your intent when you entered the building.

The last time I looked at the official statute for California, where the amount is $450 or or more then you will incur a bad check felony charge.

Bad check penalties can include a jail sentence of up to 3 years in STATE prison if the offense was charged as a felony. Any amount less than that will equal a misdemeanor charge, which brings with it a maximum jail sentence of 1 year in county jail.

Not to mention the civil liability.

It is interesting that , so far you have 2 different answers. I must agree with Mr. Wheeler, with 1 caveat. If the person has a prior offense for theft, and that offense involves a 470PC or 476PC, then the offense could be a felony. Either way, crimes of theft are quite serious, and can have LIFETIME effects for a persons, with regards to several things, 1 of them being future employment. I wish you well................ David Wallin

It depends on some more facts that you don't provide. Are you forging a check, or just cashing a check that someone else wrote to you on insufficient funds?