If you’re a licensed professional in California (such as a doctor or teacher or real estate broker) your state licensing board can potentially suspend or revoke your license for criminal convictions that are “substantially related to the qualifications, functions, or duties of the business or pr...
Criminal defense lawyer Mark Geragos joined Ashleigh Banfield Thursday to discuss the defense resting without putting Chauvin on the stand. Chauvin informed the court that he will not testify, saying he would invoke his Fifth Amendment right not to take the stand. >>Read more The New York Times...
As District Attorney, Harris ran into some other ethical difficulties as well: In 2010, a California superior court judgeexcoriated Harris’ officefor failing to notify defense lawyers of known misconduct by a drug lab technician that later led the San Francisco police to shut down an entire sect...
Much of this emasculation of the legislature has been the result of California's exceptional reliance on direct ballot initiatives and referenda to make policy, especially when it comes to fiscal measures. Such forms of direct democracy have been part of California politics for nearly 100 years. T...
A subpoena duces tecum (or SDT) is a court order that requires you to produce certain documents or pieces of evidence at a hearing or trial in a criminal case.
With the verdict forms dealing with the conspiracy count, the court furnished to the jurors a separate schedule with a blank opposite each overt act to facilitate recordation of the findings of the jury with respect to the overt acts. When the jurors returned their verdicts to the court, the...
It should also be recalled that the court had instructed the jurors that they "should ... view[]" as "circumstance[s] in mitigation" the lack of evidence that defendant engaged in "other criminal activity ... which involved the use or attempted use of force or violence or the express or...
not just developed in prison but is also widespread and supported in free society. Racial antagonisms, ghettoized housing, separation, institutionalized racism and promotion of beliefs of each other as less than human, as stupid, as criminal barbarians can cause us to fear and hate each other....
The California Supreme Court's decision in Pitchess v. Superior Court, allowing defendants access to police officer employment files under certain specific circumstances, was intended to strike a balance between a criminal defendant's right to a fair trial and a legitimate interest in maintaining ...
After being served with the restraining 15 order, Avelino's stalking, harassment, and other criminal 16 activity became worse, often occurring several times a day. 17 He would phone Maria Teresa, he would come to her home and 18 force his way into the home, he would tailgate her in his...