• In re Albert C.

    Publication Date: 2017-07-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-07-10
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Edward C. DuMont, State Solicitor General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Assistant Attorney General, Michael R. Johnsen, Deputy Attorney General, Michael J. Mongan, Deputy Solicitor General, Victoria B. Wilson, Scott A. Taryle and Theresa A. Patterson, Deputy Attorneys General, and Kathleen Vermazen Radez, Associate Deputy State Solicitor General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Laini Millar Melnick, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number:

    Local court protocol limiting length of minors' detention for competency proceedings did not define due process (Liu, J.)

  • In re Partida

    Publication Date: 2017-07-10
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-07-07
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Pappas, Kurtz, and Jury, Bankruptcy Judges, Presiding Before: Mary M. Schroeder and Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Circuit Judges, and William H. Stafford, Jr.,* District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel L. Geyser (argued), Stris & Maher LLP, Los Angeles, California; Christopher P. Burke, Las Vegas, Nevada; for Appellant.
    for defendant: Roger Wenthe (argued), Assistant United States Attorney; Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney; United States Attorney's Office, Las Vegas, Nevada; for Appellee.

    Case Number: No. 15-60045

    Mandatory Victims Restitution Act trumps automatic bankruptcy stay (Schroeder, J.)

  • United States v. Padilla-Diaz

    Publication Date: 2017-07-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-07-05
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Michael W. Mosman, Chief Judge, Presiding Michael H. Simon, District Judge, Presiding Before: M. Margaret McKeown, William A. Fletcher, and Raymond C. Fisher, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kelly A. Zusman (argued), Appellate Chief; Jeffrey S. Sweet, Assistant United States Attorney; Billy J. Williams, United States Attorney; United States Attorney's Office, Portland, Oregon; for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    for defendant: Elizabeth Gillingham Daily (argued), Research and Writing Attorney; Stephen R. Sady, Chief Deputy Federal Public Defender; Office of the Federal Public Defender, Portland, Oregon; Bryan E. Lessley, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Eugene, Oregon; for Defendants-Appellants.

    Case Number: No. 15-30279 No. 15-30294 No. 15-30375

    Amendment 782 did not entitle defendants to additional sentence reduction (W. Fletcher, J.)

  • Petrocelli v. Baker

    Publication Date: 2017-07-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-07-05
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Robert Clive Jones, Senior District Judge, Presiding Before: William A. Fletcher, Morgan Christen, and Michelle T. Friedland, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: A. Richard Ellis (argued), Mill Valley, California, for Petitioner-Appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Wieland (argued), Senior Deputy Attorney General; Adam Paul Laxalt, Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Carson City, Nevada; for Respondent-Appellee.

    Case Number: No. 14-99006

    Introduction of competency examiner's testimony at penalty phase of trial violated defendants Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights (Fletcher, J.)

  • Visciotti v. Martel

    Publication Date: 2017-07-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2016-10-17
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Manuel L. Real, District Judge, Presiding Before: Harry Pregerson, A. Wallace Tashima, and Marsha S. Berzon, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark R. Drozdowski (argued), Deputy Federal Public Defender; K. Elizabeth Dahlstrom, Research & Writing Specialist; Hilary Potashner, Federal Public Defender; Office of the Federal Public Defender, Los Angeles, California; Statia Peakheart, Los Angeles, California; for Petitioner-Appellant.
    for defendant: Meagan J. Beale (argued), Deputy Attorney General; Holly Wilkens, Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Julie L. Garland, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, San Diego, California; for Respondent-Appellee.

    Case Number: No. 11-99008

    De novo review applied to claim that trial counsel ineffectiveness excused procedural default (Berzon, J.)

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  • In re Taitano

    Publication Date: 2017-07-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-07-05
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Jeffery M. Laurence, Assistant Attorney General, Laurence K. Sullivan and Bridget A. Billeter, Deputy Attorneys General, for Appellant.
    for defendant: Robin L. Lipetzky, Public Defender for Contra Costa County, Stephanie E. Regular and Diana A. Garrido, Deputy Public Defeners, for Respondent.

    Case Number: No. A147412

    No statutory authority for new competency hearing for incompetent defendant committed for maximum term and not restored to competence (Needham, J.)

  • People v. Resendez

    Publication Date: 2017-07-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-06-30
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Assistant Attorney General, Shawn McGahey Webb and David A. Voet, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Rachel Varnell, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. B269608

    Evidence more than sufficed to establish connection between subsets of criminal street gang (Grimes, J.)

  • In re I.F.

    Publication Date: 2017-07-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-06-16
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Counsel for Appellant: Violet Elizabeth Grayson, By Appointment of The Court Of Appeal, Under The First District Appellate Project's Independent Case System.
    for defendant: Counsel for Respondent: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey M. Laurence, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Donna M. Provenzano, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Christina Vom Saal, Deputy Attorney General.

    Case Number: No. A146979, A146980

    Juvenile court erred in failing to apply most recently enacted statute to petitions pertaining to sealing of juvenile records (Jenkins, J.)

  • United States v. Ochoa

    Publication Date: 2017-07-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-07-03
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Richard Seeborg, District Judge, Presiding Before: Susan P. Graber and M. Margaret McKeown, Circuit Judges, and Barbara M. G. Lynn,*Chief District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Phillip Kopczynski (argued), Special Assistant United States Attorney; Barbara J. Valliere, Chief, Appellate Division; Brian J. Stretch, United States Attorney; United States Attorney's Office, San Francisco, California; for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    for defendant: Geoffrey A. Hensen (argued), Chief Assistant Federal Public Defender; Steven G. Kalar, Federal Public Defender; Office of the Federal Public Defender, San Francisco, California; for Defendant-Appellant.

    Case Number: No. 15-10354

    Conspiracy to violate Arms Export Control Act not removable offense (per curiam)

  • Hall v. Haws

    Publication Date: 2017-07-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-07-03
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: William Q. Hayes, District Judge, Presiding Before: Harry Pregerson and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges and Stanley Allen Bastian,*District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Holly A. Sullivan and Robert H. Rexrode, San Diego, California, for Petitioner-Appellee.
    for defendant: Matthew Mulford, Deputy Attorney General; Kevin Vienna, Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Julie L. Garland, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, San Diego, California; for Respondent-Appellant.

    Case Number: No. 14-56159

    AEDPA bar on successive petitions did not apply to motion to reopen habeas petition previously dismissed on procedural grounds (Pregerson, J.)