At the Lectern

JANUARY 3, 2021

That 2018 legislation, which scales back the felony-murder rule and the “natural and probable consequences” doctrine, has been attacked by various district attorney’s around the state as an invalid amendment of several voter initiatives and as a violation of the separation of powers. Marquez (2020) 56 Cal.App.5th

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The Crime Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Yet at the press conference and Q & A following the arraignment District Attorney Alvin Bragg told the world that the 34 felony charges brought against defendant Trump were nothing more than the Manhattan office engaging in its everyday prosecution of “bread and butter” white-collar crimes.

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At the Lectern

JUNE 17, 2021

Esquivel today expands the number of convicted defendants who can take advantage of new statutes that reduce prison terms and that apply retroactively to non-final judgments. McKenzie (2020) 9 Cal.5th The court ruled similarly last year in People v. The court reverses the Second District, Division Five, Court of Appeal.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 7, 2023

Given Bragg’s failure to even state the key offense allowing him to bring these 34 felonies, Merchan should have scheduled a hearing on the threshold legal questions in two weeks — not schedule all motions to be heard in December. It is not simply that the district attorney ran on a pledge to indict this defendant.

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At the Lectern

MARCH 11, 2022

Attorney fees. includes attorney fees. ” The majority held the statute doesn’t apply to “plea agreements with a stipulated prison term.” Stamps (2020) 9 Cal.5th Stamps (2020) 9 Cal.5th King (2020) 52 Cal.App.5th 5th 135, 155-156).” HNL Automotive Inc.

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At the Lectern

APRIL 29, 2021

where the Second District, Division Five, Court of Appeal, in a published opinion , affirmed almost $170,000 in attorneys fees after a jury awarded less than $22,000 for a violation of the Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act (commonly known as the “lemon law”) in the sale of a used car. 2020) 50 Cal.App.5th

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For decades, attorneys, activists, academics, and even judges have openly critiqued the War on Drugs and its associated harsh enforcement policies such as mandatory minimum sentencing. The relationship between anti-gun and anti-drug initiatives becomes clear when looking at felony convictions.

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At the Lectern

AUGUST 19, 2021

Menetrez, a former Horvitz & Levy attorney, wrote the article before becoming a judge. Supreme Court case changed the rule in 2010, the defendant’s attorney “had no affirmative duty. 4th 522; In re Scoggins (2020) 9 Cal.5th The appellate court held that, before a U.S. Clark (2016) 63 Cal.4th

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 19, 2024

The district attorney ultimately declined to pursue the charges against Gonzalez. The vast majority of the 215 felony indictments under the law, she explained, involved either the use or the creation of fake government identifications. Gonzalez filed a federal civil rights claim in Sept.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 24, 2022

Seven other states require a “good cause or special need” to carry a concealed gun in public under statutes like the New York law that are now at risk. In 2020, while Black people made up 18% of New York’s population, they accounted for 78% of the state’s felony gun possession cases.

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At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Four-justice separate statement, citing amicus letters, urges legislative action on vessel speed limit statute. ” The appellate court criticized a 2020 opinion by the Second District, Division Seven. Those, and other actions of note, were: Supreme Court will decide constitutionality of LGBT rights legislation.

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The Crime Report

MAY 16, 2022

In 2019, New York passed a bill eliminating both cash bail for most misdemeanors and non-violent felony offenses and judges’ discretion in setting bail amounts in those cases. By January 1 of 2020 that population had been reduced by 2,000 people all at once. percent of violent felony arrests were of suspects with open cases in 2019.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Share During a 2020 Democratic presidential primary debate, then-candidate Joe Biden pledged that, if elected, he would nominate a Black woman to serve on the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles and a second summer as a summer associate at Munger, Tolles & Olson. Supreme Court. before going to clerk for Judge David Tatel of the U.S.

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