a soccer player at a california university was arrested friday on a rape warrant and is suspected in at least two other sexual assaults, said police who are trying to identify more potential victims. davis moreno-jaime, 19, was arrested on campus at california state university, northridge in ...
Under both California and federal law, gang members convicted of serious felonies often receive harsher sentences than non-gang members who commit the same crimes. Laws punishing gang membership fall into two general categories: Felony sentencing enhance
3d 719, dealt with whether evidence of an earlier uncharged rape could be introduced in a murder prosecution to prove identity and intent. (Id. at p. 722.) We concluded that the proffered testimony was irrelevant and cumulative on the issue of identity, and that the lack of evidence of ...
In cases such as murder, rape, or child molestation, a delay prolongs the mental anguish of the surviving victims and witnesses. If the failure to appear occurs on jury trial day, there is a waste of public funds used to pay for the expenses and fees of jurors, victims, and witnesses ...
As Nessa fromDecrimLAexplains, “This bill addresses the disproportionate criminalization of Black and Brown people by repealing a discriminatory law that permits harassment of individuals for ‘walking while trans’ and ‘looking like’sex workers. In [many] rape cases involving street-based sex wor...