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

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The California Supreme Court held Monday that prisoners are entitled to a lawyer before a trial court can consider their record of conviction in determining whether the prisoners may challenge their murder convictions for killings committed by others. The new law in question was California Senate Bill No.

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Supreme Court to decide Prop. 22 challenge and another SB 1437 resentencing case [Updated]

At the Lectern

There were actions of note at the Supreme Court’s conference yesterday, uncommonly held during the same week as it heard oral arguments. Those actions included: Supreme Court will hear Prop. Supreme Court OKs LWOP commutation. Resentencing prima facie case. 22 challenge. COVID insurance.

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

At the Lectern

At the Supreme Court’s Wednesday conference , a double one, actions of note included: Retail lease. The court agreed to hear JJD-HOV Elk Grove, LLC v. The appellate court disagreed with the Fifth District’s decision in Grand Prospect Partners, L.P. The court also granted review in People v. 2015) 232 Cal.App.4th

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Can Trump Escape Accountability?  

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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.