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

JURIST

1437 , which limited the scope of the “natural and probable consequences” doctrine and felony murder to prevent liability from being imposed on a person “who is not the actual killer, did not act with the intent to kill, or was not a major participant in the underlying felony who acted with reckless indifference to human life.”

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

At the Lectern

The 62-page unpublished opinion of the Fourth District, Division One, addressed several issues, so it’s not clear why Justice Liu wanted to hear the case, but one of the issues has been of repeated interest to him. ” Three years ago, Justice Liu issued a separate statement in a case raising a similar issue. c)(1); People v.

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Can Trump Escape Accountability?  

The Crime Report

In an on-screen world where the storyline of the central character has only gone from bad to worse and the plotlines have morphed into “good” versus “evil” narratives, the all-powerful superhero Attorney General Merrick Garland will sooner or later have to do battle with the all-powerful supervillain Donald J.