• People v. Arredondo

    Publication Date: 2017-07-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-07-27
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Julie L. Garland, Assistant Attorney General, and A. Natasha Cortina, Meagan Beale, and Annie Featherman Fraser, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Steven A. Torres, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. E064206

    Placement of screen to block victim's view of defendant during testimony did not violate defendant's Sixth Amendment rights (Fields, J.)

  • United States v. Martinez-Lopez

    Publication Date: 2017-07-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-07-28
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Audrey B. Collins, District Judge, Presiding Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge, and Stephen Reinhardt, Alex Kozinski, Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain, M. Margaret McKeown, Marsha S. Berzon, Richard C. Tallman, Richard R. Clifton, Jay S. Bybee, Consuelo M. Callahan and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: L. Ashley Aull (argued), Assistant United States Attorney, Criminal Appeals Section; Robert E. Dugdale and Lawrence S. Middleton, Chiefs, Criminal Division; United States Attorney's Office, Los Angeles, California; for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    for defendant: David Menninger (argued) and Matthew B. Larsen, Deputy Federal Public Defenders; Hilary L. Potashner, Federal Public Defender; Office of the Federal Public Defender, Los Angeles, California; for Defendant-Appellant.

    Case Number: No. 14-50014

    Both controlled substance and actus reus requirements of California Health & Saf. Code §11352 are divisible (Tallman, J.)

  • In re Palmer

    Publication Date: 2017-07-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-07-26
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: O'Melveny & Myers, Cara Gagliano, Megan L. Havstad, Geoffrey Yost for Petitioner.
    for defendant: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Kathleen A. Kenealy, Acting Attorney General, Jessica N. Blonien and Julie A. Malone, Acting Assistant Attorneys General, Phillip J. Lindsay, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Sara J. Romano and Denise A. Yates, Deputy Attorneys General for Respondent.

    Case Number: No. A147177

    Butler base term and adjusted base term requirements apply to youth offenders (Richman, J.)

  • In re David T.

    Publication Date: 2017-07-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-07-26
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorney for Appellant: East Bay Community Law Center, Katherine R. Weisburd.
    for defendant: Attorneys for Respondent: Attorney General of California, Kamala Harris, Kathleen A. Kenealy, Acting Attorney General of California, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey M. Laurence, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Eric D. Share, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Huy T. Luong, Deputy Attorney General.

    Case Number: No. A148563

    Dismissed juvenile petition cannot be used as basis for denying motion to seal juvenile records. (Kline, P.J.)

  • People v. Farleigh

    Publication Date: 2017-07-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Transportation
    Industry: Transportation
    Date Filed: 2017-06-01
    Court: Super. Ct. (App. Div.)
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Richard Allen Baylis for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: Case No. 30-2016-00843760

    Driving with no hands on steering wheel violated Basic Speed Law (Hoffer, J.)

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  • People v. Casillas

    Publication Date: 2017-07-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-07-26
    Court: C.A. 5th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Carlos A. Martinez, Caely E. Fallini, and Catherine Tennant Nieto, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Sylvia W. Beckham, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. F071951

    Prop 47 barred resentencing for person convicted of super strike offense at any time prior to ruling on resentencing petition (Detjen, Acting P.J.)

  • People v. Estrada

    Publication Date: 2017-07-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-07-24
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Assistant Attorney General, Margaret E. Maxwell, Noah P. Hill, Louis W. Karlin and Nathan Guttman, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Richard B. Lennon and Suzan E. Hier, under appointments by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number:

    Facts underlying dismissed count properly considered in determining defendant's eligibility for Prop 36 resentencing (Cuéllar, J.)

  • People v. DeLeon

    Publication Date: 2017-07-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-07-24
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Dane R. Gillette and Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Allen R. Crown, Allan Yannow, Stephen G. Herndon, Rachelle A. Newcomb and Darren K. Indermill, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Roberta Simon, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number:

    Parolee entitled to probable cause hearing within 15 days of arrest for violating parole (Corrigan, J.)

  • People v. Bloomfield

    Publication Date: 2017-07-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-07-20
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler and Jeffrey M. Laurence, Assistant Attorneys General, Seth K. Schalit and Victoria Ratnikova, Deputy Attorneys General for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Lauren E. Dodge, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. A148919

    Felony access card forgery not subject to Prop 47 reduction to misdemeanor (Margulies, Acting P.J.)

  • People v. Jones

    Publication Date: 2017-07-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-07-20
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Assistant Attorney General, Joseph P. Lee and Viet H. Nguyen, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Michael J. Hersek, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Jessica K. McGuire, Assistant State Public Defender, and Ellen J. Eggers, Deputy State Public Defender, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number:

    Exclusion of testimony describing prosecutor's efforts to secure additional witnesses harmless error (Kruger, J.)