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Scolding the Legislature for lack of clarity, Supreme Court rules statute can retroactively reduce probation without negating plea deal

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Stamps (2020) 9 Cal.5th Stamps (2020) 9 Cal.5th ” However, if the Legislature had done a better job, the court’s decision wouldn’t have been so difficult; indeed, an opinion on the issue probably wouldn’t have been necessary at all. In People v.

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Supreme Court will answer teed-up bail questions and decide felony-murder resentencing issue; it depublishes arbitration opinion

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Howard (2020) 50 Cal.App.5th The cases concern resentencing a defendant whose felony-murder conviction is tossed under subsequent legislation narrowing the felony-murder rule. ” The Supreme Court denied the defendant’s petition for review in Howard. County of Los Angeles (1974) 12 Cal.3d

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Court rejects non-citizen’s challenge to criminal re-entry charge

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Eight years later, an immigration judge found that his California conviction for driving under the influence was an aggravated felony under the federal immigration laws. But six years after his deportation, the Supreme Court ruled in Leocal v. The direct implications of the court’s ruling are likely quite narrow.

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Supreme Court broadens retroactivity of punishment-reduction laws

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Working on the presumption that the “ Legislature intends for ameliorative enactments to apply as broadly as is constitutionally permis sible,” the Supreme Court i n People v. The court ruled similarly last year in People v. McKenzie (2020) 9 Cal.5th

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Georgia judge drops several charges pending against Trump in election interference case

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In August, Trump was indicted , accused along with several co-defendants of having orchestrated a racketeering scheme aimed at intentionally altering the results in Georgia of the 2020 US presidential elections. Kimbrough, 300 Ga.

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Texas city council member argues retaliatory arrest

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A federal appeals court ruled that Gonzalez’s case could not go forward because she had not provided examples of others who had engaged in the same kind of conduct but had not engaged in protected speech and had not been arrested. The district attorney ultimately declined to pursue the charges against Gonzalez.

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Profile of a potential nominee: Leondra Kruger

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Share During a 2020 Democratic presidential primary debate, then-candidate Joe Biden pledged that, if elected, he would nominate a Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Kruger was sworn into office in January 2015, becoming only the second Black woman to serve on the California Supreme Court.

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