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California Supreme Court: prisoners must get lawyer when challenging convictions for killings committed by others

JURIST

This case originated in the trial court when the defendant Vince Lewis filed a petition, under a newly enacted law that took effect in January 2019, requesting counsel to challenge his murder conviction under that same law. The new law in question was California Senate Bill No.

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Supreme Court will resolve conflict about co-tenancy leasing requirements (and about punctuation?)

At the Lectern

5th 1169 concerning 2021’s Assembly Bill 333 (see here ), but the opinion declined to resolve a split in Court of Appeal authority whether one part of the new law — Penal Code section 1109 , which requires an enhancement charge to be tried only after a jury finds the defendant guilty of the underlying offense — is retroactive.

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Can Trump Escape Accountability?  

The Crime Report

In our culturally and politically divided America, plagued by “failures to communicate,” by alt-right violent threats to law and order, and by a withering Democratic Republic, the real life series of events that we have all been experiencing seem like some kind of fictional drama made for surrealist viewing. The Indefatigable Liar. “In