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Supreme Court will decide parole eligibility issue for young-adult offenders

At the Lectern

The prosecution acted under a Los Angeles County District Attorney directive to not contest certain resentencing petitions in felony-murder cases. Division One said, “as with any other stipulation, the court must make its own determination of whether the matter to which the parties have stipulated is consistent with the law.”

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Review granted in a taxpayer action about COVID speedy trial rights and in yet another SB 1437 case

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” The trial court had dismissed the action on demurrer, ruling that one superior court cannot direct a writ of mandamus to another superior court. Murder resentencing. The court will also hear People v.

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Supreme Court to decide Prop. 22 challenge and another SB 1437 resentencing case [Updated]

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The 2018 legislation limited criminal liability for felony murder or murder under the natural-and-probable-consequences doctrine and allowed defendants convicted under those theories to seek resentencing. The court denied a request to depublish the Fourth District, Division Three, opinion in Coast Restaurant Group, Inc.