The Second District held that Lopez removed a procedural bar to Campbell’s instructional theory but that his jury necessarily found a still-valid form of malice.
The Fifth District held that noneconomic victim restitution needs no fixed formula, but each recipient must have evidence of individualized harm.
A California appellate court upheld compassionate release while clarifying that sentence recall must be followed by resentencing and that parole conditions belong to the parole board.
The Ninth Circuit held that federal arms-export authority supports the conspiracy regulation and rejected collateral attacks contradicted by the plea record.
A specific allegation that trial attorneys discussed conviction in racial terms cleared the low thresholds for appointed counsel and Racial Justice Act discovery.
The court denied a Section 2255 motion because the record defeated Khan’s ineffective-assistance, supervised-release, and plea-breach arguments.
The California Supreme Court affirmed a death judgment in a reopened 1978 murder, rejecting jury-selection and prior-sexual-offense evidence challenges.
A great-bodily-injury enhancement must be stricken when imposed on battery causing serious bodily injury based on the same injury.