Official text prohibited actmental stateif conditionpenaltylegal term
A person is guilty of aggravated mayhem when he or she unlawfully, under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the physical or psychological well-being of another person, intentionally causes permanent disability or disfigurement of another human being or deprives a human being of a limb, organ, or member of his or her body. For purposes of this section, it is not necessary to prove an intent to kill. Aggravated mayhem is a punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for life with the possibility of parole.
History: Added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 785, Sec. 1.
Simplified explanation
Aggravated mayhem is intentionally causing permanent disability or disfigurement, or depriving a person of a limb, organ, or member, with extreme indifference; it is punishable by life in state prison with the possibility of parole.