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A former state correctional officer has pleaded no contest to solicitation of murder after police say he hired a hit man to kill his lover’s husband.
Like many before him, Elon Musk came to California to make his name and fortune. He hit Silicon Valley during the 1990s and the first internet boom, and began building his fortune with startups ...
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 People, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Albert Joseph Berry, Defendant and Appellant. Citation(s) 18 Cal.3d 509; 556 P.2d 777; 134 Cal. Rptr. 415: Holding; The defendant received adequate provocation to have committed a crime of passion. Court membership; Chief Justice: Donald Wright: Associate Justices
Lafler v. Cooper, 566 U.S. 156 (2012), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court clarified the Sixth Amendment standard for reversing convictions due to ineffective assistance of counsel during plea bargaining.
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Sherri Papini, a young wife and mother who claimed she was kidnaped, has now agreed to a plea deal. Papini now admits the purported abduction that launched a nationwide search six years ago was a ...
Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 (1975), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that criminal defendants have a constitutional right to refuse counsel and represent themselves in state criminal proceedings.