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Superior Court rules Arbery’s mental health records can’t be used at trial

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The defendants, Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William Bryan, chased Arbery in a pickup truck and fatally shot him in February 2020 while Arbery was running on a public street in a Georgia neighborhood. The defendants face charges of felony murder and false imprisonment. Arbery was unarmed.

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Supreme Court will answer teed-up bail questions and decide felony-murder resentencing issue; it depublishes arbitration opinion

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Howard (2020) 50 Cal.App.5th The cases concern resentencing a defendant whose felony-murder conviction is tossed under subsequent legislation narrowing the felony-murder rule. ” The Supreme Court denied the defendant’s petition for review in Howard. Romero (1994) 8 Cal.4th 4th 728, 740, fn.

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Court rejects non-citizen’s challenge to criminal re-entry charge

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Eight years later, an immigration judge found that his California conviction for driving under the influence was an aggravated felony under the federal immigration laws. But six years after his deportation, the Supreme Court ruled in Leocal v. The direct implications of the court’s ruling are likely quite narrow.

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Scolding the Legislature for lack of clarity, Supreme Court rules statute can retroactively reduce probation without negating plea deal

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Stamps (2020) 9 Cal.5th It’s not an easily resolved issue, because the Legislature didn’t specify an answer. In People v.

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Supreme Court broadens retroactivity of punishment-reduction laws

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The court ruled similarly last year in People v. McKenzie (2020) 9 Cal.5th The court reverses the Second District, Division Five, Court of Appeal. 5th 40, which involved the suspension of a prison sentence’s imposition instead of, in Esquivel , a sentence being imposed but its execution suspended.

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Supreme Court will hear case about public entity liability for dangerous property conditions

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Jaimes , but it granted the Attorney General’s request to depublish the Fifth District’s divided, partially published opinion that held the superior court erroneously responded to a jury question about the meaning of a charged sentence enhancement for a person “convicted of a felony committed. Renteria , below.).

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Indianapolis Police Officer Sues NFL For Defamation in Anti-Racism Campaign

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He also livestreamed his encounter with police on May 6, 2020 with the gun visible. to prevent the commission of a forcible felony; ?or. 11, 2020, the NFL published a video a part of its “Say Their Stories” campaign featuring Reed. Reed had been driving recklessly and hit a couple of vehicles.

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