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Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), was a United States Supreme Court case in which a court-appointed attorney filed a motion to withdraw from the appeal of a criminal case because of his belief that any grounds for appeal were frivolous.
Voluntary dismissal is termination of a lawsuit by voluntary request of the plaintiff (the party who originally filed the lawsuit). A voluntary dismissal with prejudice (meaning the plaintiff is permanently barred from further litigating the same subject matter) is the modern descendant of the common law procedure known as retraxit.
A motion to strike is a request by one party in a United States trial requesting that the presiding judge order the removal of all or part of the opposing party's pleading to the court. These motions are most commonly sought by the defendant, as to a matter contained in the plaintiff's complaint; however, they may also be asserted by plaintiffs ...
In an unrelated case, Raymond Apodaca, 38, similarly filed a motion to withdraw his plea of guilty to second-degree murder charges after he'd entered into a plea agreement with the 10th Judicial ...
LEILA FUJIMORI / LFUJIMORI @STARADVERTISER.COM Juan Baron, left, testified Friday at a hearing on his motion to withdraw his guilty plea. A Spanish-language interpreter sat with him. LEILA ...
The parents of a 13-year-old girl who was run over by a suicidal driver in Malibu in 2010 are appealing to California Gov. Gavin Newsom to stop the felon from being released on parole.
The People of the State of California v. Superior Court (Romero), 13 CAL. 4TH 497, 917 P.2D 628 (Cal. 1996), was a landmark case in the state of California that gave California Superior Court judges the ability to dismiss a criminal defendant's "strike prior" pursuant to the California Three-strikes law, thereby avoiding a 25-to-life minimum sentence.
The final defendant to reach a plea deal in last year's fatal shooting outside East High School cannot withdraw his guilty plea and will proceed to sentencing, a district judge has ruled.. Octavio ...