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The resentencing hearing for the Menendez brothers, who notoriously shot their parents to death in 1989, is being pushed back by nearly two months due to California’s devastating wildfires.. Los ...
Conformity with Brady is a continuing obligation of prosecutors. Some prosecuting attorney offices have adopted and created specialized procedure and bureaus to meet their burden. [17] Pitchess v. Superior Court [18] is the source for a "Pitchess motion" in California. Such a motion can be made by a criminal defendant to discover complaints ...
New Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman's office is pushing back against a "meritless" claim of a potential conflict of interest in the Menendez brothers’ case amid reports that their ...
Macomb County Prosecutor Peter Lucido had two ethics complaints before the county ethics board filed by former Michigan Democratic Chairman Mark Brewer.
A Pitchess motion is a request made by the defense in a California criminal case, such as a DUI case or a resisting arrest case, to access a law enforcement officer's personnel information when the defendant alleges in an affidavit that the officer used excessive force or lied about the events surrounding the defendant's arrest. The information ...
A Marsden motion is the only means by which a criminal defendant can fire a court-appointed attorney or communicate directly with a judge in a California state court. [1] It is based on a defendant's claim that the attorney is providing ineffective assistance or has a conflict with the defendant.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic set Dec. 11 for a hearing in Van Nuys on the district attorney's proposal to change the brothers' sentences in the killings of Jose and Kitty ...
Griffin v. California, 380 U.S. 609 (1965), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled, by a 6–2 vote, that it is a violation of a defendant's Fifth Amendment rights for the prosecutor to comment to the jury on the defendant's declining to testify, or for the judge to instruct the jury that such silence is evidence of guilt.