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People v. Turner, formally The People of the State of California v.Brock Allen Turner (2015), was a criminal case in which Brock Allen Turner was convicted by jury trial of three counts of felony sexual assault.
Relying on the California Supreme Court's earlier precedent, the Court of Appeal answered in the negative. Rather, a waiver of the instruction forecloses an appeal on that basis only where defense counsel "expresses a deliberate tactical purpose in suggesting, resisting, or acceding to an instruction" so as to "nullify the trial court's ...
Two defendants were tried and convicted in a California state court on felony charges including robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, and assault with intent to commit murder. A single public defender had been appointed to represent them on these three charges.
In 1993, Jackson was accused of child sexual abuse by a 13-year-old boy, Jordan Chandler. [1] The abuse allegedly took place at Jackson's Neverland Ranch home in Santa Barbara, California. [2] In January 1994, Jackson settled the lawsuit made against him for $23 million, with $5 million going to the family's lawyers.
In 2002, he was convicted in Kern County of robbery and assault with a deadly weapon causing great bodily injury. The latter resulted in a 20-year prison sentence, according to Ramsey and Kern ...
The California Supreme Court reversed Berry's murder conviction, while affirming Berry's conviction for assault using deadly force. The case has also been discussed or mentioned in more than forty separate academic journal articles relating to murder, female victims of domestic violence, and rape. [2]
He is accused of giving drugs to a woman and raping her before her overdose death on July 6, 2020. The name of that victim has not been released. DiGiorgio is being held in jail without bond.
Lockyer v. Andrade, 538 U.S. 63 (2003), [1] decided the same day as Ewing v. California (a case with a similar subject matter), [2] held that there would be no relief by means of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus from a sentence imposed under California's three strikes law as a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishments.