the crime of corporal injury on a child in California requires you to have inflicted cruel or inhumane treatment to the child which caused traumatic injury to the child and further that you did so when you are not exercising reasonable parental discipline on the child you can face up to six years in prison if you're convicted of a felony and up to 364 days in jail if you're convicted of a misdemeanor it will be up to the prosecutor to decide whether you're prosecuted as a felony or a misdemeanor depending mostly on the severity of the injury to the child if you're accused of corporal injury to a child probably the best choice you have for a lawyer is Wallin & Klarich I say that because we've represented hundreds of people accused of this crime over 35 years and anytime you've done anything this successfully for 35 years you're really good at it our clients have attested to how well we paddle their cases over all those years and that's why you should seriously consider hiring us for your cake