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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.
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 ]
The trial of Dominique and 50 other men accused of rape, attempted rape or sexual assault began in Avignon on 2 September 2024, and concluded on 16 December, with verdicts delivered on 19 December. All were convicted, with Dominique receiving the maximum 20-year prison term.
Roseville parents accused of murder in the death of their adopted 9-year-old son have been ordered to stand trial, but the child’s father is challenging that ruling in court.
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.
Country music star Garth Brooks has been accused of raping and battering a woman who claims she worked as his hairstylist and makeup artist. The lawsuit, filed in a California court on Thursday by ...
On appeal, the Court of Appeal of California (First District, Fourth Division) reversed the defendant's conviction and ordered a new trial. The Government's petition for hearing by the California Supreme Court was denied on July 29, 1970. Following two subsequent mistrials, the District Attorney declined to pursue a fourth trial, thus ...
A federal judge who previously overturned California's three-decade-old ban on assault weapons did it again on Thursday, ruling that the state's attempts to prohibit sales of semiautomatic guns ...