SB 94, as amended, Cortese. An act to add Section 1172.5 to the Penal Code, relating to sentencing. Status: 3/23/2023 From Senate...

Frank Gable v. Max Williams Docket: 19-35427, Opinion Date: September 29, 2022. Petitioner was convicted of the murder of an Oregon...

People v. Renteria Court: Supreme Court of California, Docket: S266854, Opinion Date: August 25, 2022. The Supreme Court reversed the...

California v. Salgado Docket: G060656 (Fourth Appellate District), Opinion Date: August 18, 2022. Victor Salgado appealed a recall and...

AB 960, Ting. Status: 7/27/2022, Set FOR Hearing ON 08-AUG-22 10 a.m. Legislative Counsel’s Digest: This bill would require the...

USA v. Verne Merrell Docket: 20-30183, Opinion Date: June 10, 2022. In three defendants’ consolidated appeals, the Ninth Circuit (1)...

Nazir v. Super. Ct. Docket: B310806 (Second Appellate District), Opinion Date: June 2, 2022. Petitioner argued the trial court abused its...

People v. Butler Docket: B313121 (Second Appellate District), Opinion Date: February 15, 2022. Butler pleaded no contest to unlawful possession of ammunition and admitted to prior prison terms in exchange for five years’ probation. After Butler violated his probation terms, the trial court revoked probation in February 2020. Butler argued that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to revoke his probation because he already served the maximum probation term allowed under Assembl

People v. Chatman Docket: A151408A (First Appellate District), Opinion Date: January 31, 2022. Chatman was convicted of five counts of “identity theft,” Penal Code section 530.5(a),(c); mail theft, section 530.5(e); and second-degree commercial burglary, section 459. Applying Proposition 47, the court of appeal held that the “identity theft” crimes had to be treated as misdemeanors if the value of the personal identifying information obtained and used or possessed did not exc

California v. Rorabaugh Docket: C090482 (Third Appellate District), Opinion Date: January 25, 2022. When executing a search warrant at defendant Donald Rorabaugh’s home, police learned that one of his cars was a short distance away, at a ranch. Police went to the ranch and towed the car away to be stored until they could obtain a warrant to search it. Later, the trial court denied defendant’s motion to suppress evidence found in the car. In closing argument to the jury, the p

United States v. Turchin Docket: 18-10464, Opinion Date: January 3, 2022. Based on his participation in a scheme to issue California commercial driver’s licenses to persons who had not passed the requisite tests, Turchin was convicted of fraud involving identification documents, 18 U.S.C. 1028(a)(1) and under 18 U.S.C. 371, for conspiracy to violate the prohibitions on bribery concerning a program receiving federal funds under 18 U.S.C. 666(a)(1)(B) and (a)(2) and to commit f

12/22/2021—At the request of Governor Gavin Newsom, the Supreme Court today recommended clemency for Eric Cowan, allowing Newsom to...

People v. Williams Docket: A159914 (First Appellate District), Opinion Date: November 23, 2021. Williams, convicted of murder in 1995 and...