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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.
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]
In that role, she took on cases involving child sexual assault, homicide, robbery and serial felony offenders, among others. She eventually was elected as California’s attorney general and ...
Stout, according to prosecutors, has two prior convictions under California’s “Three Strikes” law. If convicted of arson, he could be sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
Among the laws Friday's decision could affect are California's bans on assault-style weapons and large-capacity ammunition magazines, both of which are facing legal challenges in the U.S. 9th ...
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.
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 ...