{"data":{"id":"us-ca/pen-519","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"PEN § 519","heading":"","body":"Fear, such as will constitute extortion, may be induced by a threat of any of the following:\n1. To do an unlawful injury to the person or property of the individual threatened or of a third person.\n2. To accuse the individual threatened, or a relative of his or her, or a member of his or her family, of a crime.\n3. To expose, or to impute to him, her, or them a deformity, disgrace, or crime.\n4. To expose a secret affecting him, her, or them.\n5. To report his, her, or their immigration status or suspected immigration status.","path":["Penal Code - PEN","PART 1. OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS [25. - 680.4.]","TITLE 13. OF CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY [450. - 593g.]","CHAPTER 7. Extortion [518. - 527.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"49e5bafee33fd63e0e95677a7d0d9f31a6ce039d732153de84b98acb0e27281e","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/pen-518","next":"us-ca/pen-520"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}