The Crime Report
JULY 22, 2021
For example, a collection of evidence about a single felony offense will be broken down into separate misdemeanor offenses labeled as separate “acts.” Even though a judge, prosecutor and defendant agree it was only one criminal act, the multiple misdemeanors would be honored to lessen the penalty, yet still get a semblance of justice.
Day on Torts
MAY 5, 2021
In Affordable Construction Services, Inc. 56-7-111 states that “when an insured property owner’s home or other structure sustains more than $1,000 in damages, the property or casualty insurance company shall name the general contractor of an uncompleted construction contract as a payee when issuing payment to the owner for the loss.”
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At the Lectern
APRIL 15, 2024
5th 998, the court unanimously found a state constitutional right to appointed counsel for a misdemeanor defendant who is the respondent in a prosecution appeal of an order suppressing evidence. Supreme Court has said or might say. In Gardner v. Appellate Division (2019) 6 Cal.5th ” ( Id. ’ ” (6 Cal.5th ’ ” ( Id.
JURIST
MAY 14, 2024
According to the DOJ’s statement, Batten conspired with Chance Brannon and Tibet Ergul, both from California, to construct a Molotov cocktail which was later detonated in a Planned Parenthood clinic in Costa Mesa, California. The events leading to Batten’s sentence transpired in February and March of 2022.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 24, 2023
Finally, concluding that the statute’s meaning was unambiguous after applying traditional rules of statutory construction, Kavanaugh declined to apply the rule of lenity, which resolves any ambiguity in criminal or immigration statutes in favor of the criminal defendant or the noncitizen.
At the Lectern
JANUARY 18, 2023
Fresno Unified School District : When the court granted review in March 2021 , it limited the issue to: “Is a lease-leaseback arrangement in which construction is financed through bond proceeds rather than by or through the builder a ‘contract’ within the meaning of Government Code section 53511?” (See here and here.) In re F.M. :
At the Lectern
APRIL 29, 2021
83 — and where the Attorney General has knowledge of, or is in actual or constructive possession of, such evidence — what duty, if any, does the Attorney General have to acknowledge or disclose that evidence to the petitioner? Maryland (1963) 373 U.S. Would any such duty be triggered only upon issuance of an order to show cause?
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