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Supreme Court takes three cases and depublishes three opinions; dissenting votes in four review denials

At the Lectern

Division Six concluded an erroneous felony-murder instruction was harmless. ” (Emphasis added.) A divided unpublished Fifth District opinion affirmed convictions for lewd acts on a minor and found harmless the superior court’s mistaken interpretation of a sentencing statute. Offley (2020) 48 Cal.App.5th

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“Corners Were Being Cut”: Baldwin Shooting Already Has The Makings of a Blockbuster Tort Action

JonathanTurley

b) Involuntary—in the commission of an unlawful act, not amounting to a felony; or in the commission of a lawful act which might produce death, in an unlawful manner, or without due caution and circumspection. This incident could well prove a violation of a statute or regulation making the act “negligent per se.”

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