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The Supreme Court of the United States vacated the judgment of the California District Court of Appeal. In an opinion by Justice Douglas, expressing the view of six members of the Court, it was held that the denial of counsel under the California rule of procedure stated above violated the Fourteenth Amendment.
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 ...
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]
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.
Arthur Dean Knapp, 40, is being held at the Madera County jail on a slew of charges, including rape and attempted murder for the alleged attack.
The eighteenth season of the television program Law & Order: Special Victims Unit highlighted the People v. Turner case, in its episode titled "Rape Interrupted". [174] The episode, which was influenced by the case, [174] guest-starred Anthony Edwards as Sgt. Patrick Griffin, Benson's first partner out of the Academy. Griffin's son is the ...
A California man drugged and raped nine women, including one who died from an overdose, authorities said.. Michel DiGiorgio, 50, now faces one count of murder, three counts of rape by use of drugs ...
A man accused of igniting California’s fourth-largest blaze in its history, the Park Fire, pleaded not guilty Thursday during his arraignment on a charge of arson as prosecutors allege he lit a ...