{"data":{"id":"us-ca/pen-853.7","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"PEN § 853.7","heading":"","body":"Any person who willfully violates his or her written promise to appear or a lawfully granted continuance of his or her promise to appear in court is guilty of a misdemeanor, regardless of the disposition of the charge upon which he or she was originally arrested.","path":["Penal Code - PEN","PART 2. OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE [681. - 1620.]","TITLE 3. ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS REGARDING CRIMINAL PROCEDURE [777. - 883.]","CHAPTER 5C. Citations for Misdemeanors [853.5. - 853.85.]"],"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":"30c940d8926701ca2dc5607d8f0de1a178abeec711fd85b6621060d3e218c856","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/pen-853.6a","next":"us-ca/pen-853.7a"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}