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  • People v. Leonard

    Publication Date: 2017-09-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Date Filed: 2017-09-13
    Court: C.A. 4th
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Julie L. Garland, Assistant Attorney General, Collette C. Cavalier and Arlene A. Sevidal, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Patrick J. Hennessey, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
    Case Number: No. D070980

    Driver need not personally incur traffic violation points in order to be convicted of reckless driving while evading police officer (Huffman, J.)

  • Cain v. Chappell

    Publication Date: 2017-09-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Date Filed: 2017-09-13
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Audrey B. Collins, District Judge, Presiding Before: Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain, Johnnie B. Rawlinson, and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan C. Aminoff (argued) and Mark R. Drozdowski, Deputy Federal Public Defenders; Hilary Potashner, Federal Public Defender; Office of the Federal Public Defender, Los Angeles, California; for Petitioner-Appellant.
    for defendant: Kim Aarons (argued) and A. Scott Hayward, Deputy Attorneys General; Lance E. Winters, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Los Angeles, California; for Respondent-Appellee.
    Case Number: No. 13-99008

    Defendant had adequate notice that special circumstance finding could be based on either rape or attempted rape (Rawlinson, J.)

  • United States v. Doe

    Publication Date: 2017-09-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Date Filed: 2017-09-12
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Larry A. Burns, District Judge, Presiding Before: Morgan Christen and Paul J. Watford, Circuit Judges, and James Alan Soto,* District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel E. Zipp (argued), Assistant United States Attorney; Peter Ko, Chief, Appellate Section, Criminal Division; United States Attorney's Office, San Diego, California; for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    for defendant: Kurt D. Hermansen (argued), Law Office of Kurt David Hermansen, San Diego, California, for Defendant-Appellant.
    Case Number: No. 15-50259

    District court erred in denying cartel informant's motion to seal criminal court records (Christen, J.)

  • People v. Hunter

    Publication Date: 2017-09-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Date Filed: 2017-09-11
    Court: C.A. 4th
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Julie L. Garland, Assistant Attorney General, Theodore M. Cropley and Daniel J. Hilton, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Diane E. Berley, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant Alan Hunter.
    Case Number: No. B275226

    Defendants had no right to victim interview report prepared by codefendant's attorney (Aronson, J.)

  • People v. Lujano

    Publication Date: 2017-09-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Date Filed: 2017-09-11
    Court: C.A. 2nd
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Assistant Attorney General, Susan Sullivan Pithey and Alene M. Games, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Vanessa Place, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
    Case Number: No. B269153

    No instruction required regarding defendant's purported "reasonable belief" that sodomy victim consented (Menetrez, J.)

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  • United States v. McChesney

    Publication Date: 2017-09-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Date Filed: 2017-09-11
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Wm. Fremming Nielsen, Senior District Judge, Presiding Before: M. Margaret McKeown, Consuelo M. Callahan, and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leif Johnson (argued), Acting United States Attorney, United States Attorney's Office, Billings, Montana, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    for defendant: Daniel O. C. Ball (argued), Hendrickson Law Firm P.C., Billings, Montana, for Defendant-Appellant.
    Case Number: No. 16-30052

    Defendant failed to substantiate claims of outside interference with jurors (McKeown, J.)

  • United States v. Cervantes

    Publication Date: 2017-09-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Date Filed: 2017-06-19
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: David O. Carter, District Judge, Presiding Before: Stephen S. Trott, M. Margaret McKeown, and Paul J. Watford, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark Takla (argued), Assistant United States Attorney, Terrorism and Export Crimes Section; Patricia A. Donahue, Chief, National Security Division; United States Attorney's Office, Santa Ana, California; for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    for defendant: Michael Tanaka (argued), Deputy Federal Public Defender; Hilary Potashner, Federal Public Defender; Office of the Federal Public Defender, Los Angeles, California; for Defendant-Appellant.
    Case Number: No. 15-50459

    Hotel room subject to search as "premises" under defendant's control (Watford, J.)

  • People v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2017-09-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Date Filed: 2017-09-08
    Court: C.A. 2nd
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Assistant Attorney General, Scott A. Taryle and Tannaz Kouhpainezhad, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Allison H. Ting, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for defendant and appellant Kevin R. Williams.
    Case Number: No. B275226

    Exigent circumstances supported warrantless entry onto property (Grimes, J.)

  • United States v. D.M.

    Publication Date: 2017-09-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Date Filed: 2017-09-07
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Barry Ted Moskowitz, Chief District Judge, Presiding Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges, and Virginia M. Kendall,* District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Helen H. Hong (argued), Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney's Office, San Diego, California, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    for defendant: James Fife (argued), Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., San Diego, California, for Defendant-Appellant.
    Case Number: No. 16-50243

    Sentencing Guideline reduction did not deprive defendant of eligibility for multiple downward departures (Callahan, J.)

  • Smith v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2017-09-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Date Filed: 2017-09-08
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Andrew P. Gordon, District Judge, Presiding Before: Stephen Reinhardt and Alex Kozinski, Circuit Judges, and Terrence Berg,* District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan M. Kirshbaum (argued), Assistant Federal Public Defender; Rene L. Valladares, Federal Public Defender; Office of the Federal Public Defender, Las Vegas, Nevada; for Petitioner-Appellant.
    for defendant: Dennis C. Wilson (argued), Senior Deputy Attorney General; Adam Paul Laxalt, Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Las Vegas, Nevada; for Respondents-Appellees.
    Case Number: No. 15-16967

    State court's filing of amended judgment reinstating prior conviction constituted "new judgment" for purposes of AEDPA statute of limitations on federal habeas petition (Reinhardt, J.)