California’s Third District Court of Appeal affirmed Stephen Stubbs’s and Brandon Frank’s convictions for dozens of child sexual offenses, holding that Penal Code section 667.61’s tying-or-binding special circumstance extends to aiders and abettors, while modifying StubbsR
The Third District Court of Appeal dismissed Norberto Andrade Cardenas’s challenge to his guilty plea because his claim attacked the plea’s validity and he had not obtained the certificate of probable cause required for that appeal.
The Court of Appeal vacated Steele’s count 6 conviction because his lawyer unreasonably failed to request a mistake-of-fact instruction supported by substantial evidence, while denying his Racial Justice Act claim without prejudice to refiling in superior court.
The First District Court of Appeal affirmed Charles Tooker’s 16-year sentence, holding that its prior full-resentencing remand did not preclude a jury trial on unproven aggravating factors and that Tooker forfeited his ability-to-pay challenge, while ordering correction of custody credits in the abs
The Court of Appeal affirmed the judgment, holding that the trial court properly overruled a section 231.7 objection to a peremptory challenge based on confirmed juror inattentiveness and did not abuse its discretion in declining to dismiss prior strike convictions.
The First District Court of Appeal affirmed a juvenile disposition requiring adult supervision for A.T.’s contact with minors, including his younger sisters, because his concealed abuse of a young cousin supported child-protection and rehabilitation interests while supervised family contact re
The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California entered judgment denying Laura Leesha Means’s request for habeas relief, with no further proceedings, consistent with the order accepting the magistrate judge’s findings and recommendations.
The Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court’s denial of Battle’s § 2255 motion. The court held that Battle failed to satisfy either prong of the Strickland v. Washington test for ineffective assistance of counsel. Regarding the failure-to-investigate claim, Battle’s uncorroborate
The Ninth Circuit affirmed the conviction and sentence. First, the court held that no Fourth Amendment seizure occurred at the gas station because, even assuming Sergeant Gillen’s conduct constituted a show of authority, Zamora did not submit to it; instead, he fled. Under California v. Hodari
The Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court’s denial of compassionate release. The court held that any potential error in the district court’s analysis of extraordinary and compelling reasons under U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13 was harmless because the district court alternatively relied on the §
The Ninth Circuit conducted an independent review of the record pursuant to Penson v. Ohio and found no non-frivolous issue regarding the enforceability of the appeal waiver. The court also found no non-frivolous issue concerning the portion of the sentence exceeding the.
The Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court’s denial of the habeas petition.
The Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court’s denial of Eltareb’s § 2255 motion.
A federal magistrate judge ordered a pro se habeas petitioner to show cause why his concededly unexhausted Section 2254 petition should not be dismissed, directing him to either justify a Rhines stay or file an amended petition by November 24, 2026.
The Court of Appeal affirmed a conviction for sexual abuse of a minor, holding that the trial court did not err by instructing the jury with two versions of CALCRIM No. 1193 regarding CSAAS evidence or by imposing a midterm sentence without expressly invoking the statutory presumption for a lower te
The Court of Appeal affirmed a judgment entered after a guilty plea to unemployment insurance fraud, holding that challenges to the restitution amount stipulated in the plea agreement constituted an attack on the plea’s validity requiring a certificate of probable cause that the defendant did
California’s Second District Court of Appeal, Division One, affirmed Jose Guadalupe Sanchez Lozano’s judgment after appointed counsel filed a Wende brief and the court independently found no arguable appellate issues.
The Court of Appeal affirmed the summary denial of Pride Eldridge’s recall petition, holding that his 31-years-to-life sentence was neither LWOP nor its functional equivalent and rejecting his equal-protection and counsel claims.
California’s Second District Court of Appeal affirmed the order denying Michael Antione Larry’s resentencing petition, holding that his supplemental appellate argument about trial counsel’s defense strategy was not relevant to the issues raised in his section 1172.6 petition and ha
The Court of Appeal affirmed Darrick Demond Hicks’s convictions but vacated the court-ordered payments and remanded for sentencing proceedings consistent with People v. Kopp.
The Court of Appeal reversed the order denying George Anthony Salinas’s recall and resentencing request and directed the trial court to recall his sentence and resentence him under Penal Code section 1172.1 because substantial evidence did not support a finding that he posed an unreasonable ri
Following transfer from the California Supreme Court with directions to reconsider in light of People v. Espino, the Court of Appeal reversed the trial court’s finding that Rodney Lee Becker was ineligible for Penal Code section 1172.75 resentencing relief and remanded with instructions to str
The Third District Court of Appeal affirmed Christopher Kirby’s conviction after a Wende review found no arguable error, but agreed with appointed counsel that the abstract of judgment contained a clerical error and directed the trial court to correct it to reflect the orally imposed $300 sex
The Third District affirmed Jeremy Wilson’s convictions for torturing and sexually assaulting his girlfriend’s two-year-old son, rejecting challenges to prior acts evidence, a forensic interview, and the sufficiency of torture intent, but vacated his sentence of life without parole plus