• People v. Nguyen

    Publication Date: 2017-05-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-05-30
    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, Meagan J. Beale and Kelley Johnson, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Christopher Love, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. G052484

    Trial court transcript of Pitchess review disclosed no error (Moore, J.)

  • Davies v. Benov

    Publication Date: 2017-05-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-05-17
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Michael J. Seng, Magistrate Judge, Presiding Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw, Ronald M. Gould, and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cody Harris (argued), Philip J. Tassin, Steven P. Ragland, and Elliot R. Peters, Keker & Van Nest LLP, San Francisco, California, for Petitioner-Appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory T. Broderick (argued), Assistant United States Attorney; Camil A. Skipper, Appellate Chief; Phillip A. Talbert, United States Attorney; United States Attorney's Office, Sacramento, California; for Respondent-Appellee.

    Case Number: No. 15-17256

    Waiver provision in plea agreement precluded collateral attack on sentence (Gould, J.)

  • United States v. Crooked Arm

    Publication Date: 2017-04-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-04-11
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Donald W. Molloy, District Judge, Presiding Before: Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain, Richard R. Clifton, and Jacqueline H. Nguyen, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey S. Beelaert (argued), Allen Brabender, and Andrew C. Mergen, Attorneys; John C. Cruden, Assistant Attorney General; Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Mark S. Smith and Leif M. Johnson, Assistant United States Attorneys; Michael W. Cotter, United States Attorney; United States Attorney's Office, Billings, Montana; for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    for defendant: Brian M. Murphy (argued), Holland & Hart LLP, Billings, Montana; Mark D. Parker, Parker Heitz & Cosgrove PLLC, Billings, Montana; for Defendant-Appellant Douglas Vance Crooked Arm.

    Case Number: No. 15-30277 No. 15-30280

    Law of case barred reconsideration of issues raised and decided in prior appeal (O'Scannlain, J.)

  • Nasby v. McDaniel

    Publication Date: 2017-04-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-04-10
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Larry R. Hicks, District Judge, Presiding Before: Stephen Reinhardt and John B. Owens, Circuit Judges, and Salvador Mendoza, Jr.,* District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas L. Qualls (argued), Law Office of Thomas L. Qualls Ltd., Reno, Nevada, for Petitioner-Appellant.
    for defendant: Victor-Hugo Schulze, II (argued), Senior Deputy Attorney General; Adam Paul Laxalt, Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Las Vegas, Nevada; for Respondents-Appellees.

    Case Number: Nos. 14-17313, 15-16264

    District court erred in ruling on merits of habeas petition without reviewing state court transcripts (Reinhardt, J.)

  • United States v. Gasca-Ruiz

    Publication Date: 2017-04-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-04-05
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Gonzalo P. Curiel, District Judge, Presiding Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge, and Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain, M. Margaret McKeown, William A. Fletcher, Ronald M. Gould, Jay S. Bybee, Carlos T. Bea, N. Randy Smith, Paul J. Watford, Andrew D. Hurwitz, and Michelle T. Friedland, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter Ko (argued), Chief, Appellate Section, Criminal Division; Benjamin J. Katz, Assistant United States Attorney; Laura E. Duffy, United States Attorney; United States Attorney's Office, San Diego, California; for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    for defendant: Vincent J. Brunkow (argued) and Ryan V. Fraser, Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., San Diego, California, for Defendant-Appellant.

    Case Number: Nos. 14-50342, 14-50343

    No abuse of discretion in sentencing court's imposition of two-level increase for "bodily injury" (Watford, J.)

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  • Dixon v. Baker

    Publication Date: 2017-02-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-02-02
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Robert Clive Jones, District Judge, Presiding Before: Alex Kozinski, Ronald Lee Gilman,* and Michelle T. Friedland, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ryan Norwood (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: Karen A. Whelan (argued), Deputy Attorney General; Adam Paul Laxalt, Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Las Vegas, Nevada; for Respondents-Appellees.

    Case Number: No. 14-16644

    Cite as 17 C.D.O.S. 994 TERRY D. DIXON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. RENEE BAKER, Warden;

  • People v. Sanghera

    Publication Date: 2016-12-05
    Practice Area: Evidence | Criminal Law | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2016-12-02
    Court: C.A. 3rd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Stephen G. Herndon, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Darren K. Indermill and Jessica C. Leal, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Geoffrey Rotwein, Retained Counsel for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. C078933

    Cite as 16 C.D.O.S. 12772 THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. MANGAL SINGH SANGHERA

  • People v. Guerra

    Publication Date: 2016-11-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2016-11-21
    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, Catherine Chatman and Jeffrey Grant, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Stephanie L. Gunther, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. F071164

    Cite as 16 C.D.O.S. 12255 THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ADAM LEE GUERRA, Defe

  • People v. Hannon

    Publication Date: 2016-11-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2016-11-03
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey M. Laurence, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Masha A. Dabiza and Sara Turner, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Sidney S. Hollar, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. A145945

    Cite as 16 C.D.O.S. 11749 THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. EUGENE MARTIN HANNON,

  • Visciotti v. Martel

    Publication Date: 2016-10-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Criminal Appeals
    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; Office of the Federal Public Defender, 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

    Cite as 16 C.D.O.S. 10941 JOHN LOUIS VISCIOTTI, Petitioner-Appellant, v. MICHAEL MARTEL