California Court of Appeal - January 2002 Opinion Summaries

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LYNCH v. WARWICK California Court of Appeal Legal Malpractice The actual innocence requirement for a criminal legal malpractice case applies regardless of whether the former criminal defendant is seeking damages...	01/16/2002	D035507
PEOPLE v. SMITH California Court of Appeal Criminal Law & Procedure Under Penal Code 1538.5, once a defendant challenges an unwarranted search as unreasonable, the prosecution must present evidence justifying the...	01/16/2002	D036108
GRAY v. SUPERIOR COURT (PEOPLE) California Court of Appeal Criminal Law & Procedure Under the Sexually Violent Predators Act, Welf. & Inst. Code 6600 et seq., a post-filing split of expert opinion on whether a defendant is a...	01/16/2002	E029464
PEOPLE v. WILSON California Court of Appeal Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing Although Penal Code 451.1(a)(5) provides for a sentence enhancement if arson is committed by use of an accelerant, the opening words of the statute,...	01/15/2002	B151042
MACKINNON v. TRUCK INS. EXCH. California Court of Appeal Insurance Law A commercial comprehensive general liability insurance policy pollution exclusion excludes coverage for a third party personal injury claim arising...	01/15/2002	E028662
IN RE: VARNELL California Court of Appeal Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing A trial court may use Penal Code 1385 to dismiss a prior conviction in order to enable an otherwise ineligible defendant to qualify for probation and...	01/15/2002	B153849
PEOPLE v. MASON California Court of Appeal Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing Evidence that defendants were motivated by both the desire to rob and kill the victim is sufficient to support a felony-murder special circumstance...	01/15/2002	D035933
PEOPLE v. LEGAULT California Court of Appeal Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing Proposition 36, which allowed certain non-violent drug offenders to obtain treatment and probation instead of a sentence, does not apply where...	01/11/2002	E028707
IN RE: SE. T. California Court of Appeal Family Law, Indian Law When a vague Indian tribal designation is the only information a County Department of Health and Human Services and the juvenile court has of a...	01/11/2002	C037875
CALIFORNIA TEACHERS' ASS'N v. GOVERNING BD. OF THE HILMAR UNIFIED SCH. DIST. California Court of Appeal Education Law A one-time payment to teachers based upon at least one criterion that is neither years of training nor years of experience is not subject to the...	01/11/2002	F035738

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