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Supreme Court of California - July 2002 Opinion Summaries

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KONIG v. FAIR EMPLOYMENT & HOUSING COMM'N

Supreme Court of California
Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The Fair Employment and Housing Commission's authority to award emotional distress damages to housing discrimination complainants, in light of the...
07/29/2002 S087843

PEOPLE v. ANDERSON

Supreme Court of California
Criminal Law & Procedure
Because fear for one's own life does not justify the killing of an innocent person, duress is not a defense to murder, and cannot reduce murder to...
07/29/2002 S094710

PEOPLE v. STATUM

Supreme Court of California
Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Court's decision to reduce an alternative felony/misdemeanor conviction to a misdemeanor, and sentence defendant as a misdemeanant, is appealable by...
07/25/2002 S097715

ESTATE OF AUSTIN D. STEPHENS

Supreme Court of California
Property Law & Real Estate
When a decedent orally instructed his daughter to sign his name on a grant deed, vesting title to his residence in himself and her as joint tenants,...
07/25/2002 S095401

PEOPLE v. CASH

Supreme Court of California
Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In an automatic appeal from imposition of the death penalty, a murder with robbery special circumstance conviction is affirmed, but prejudicial error...
07/25/2002 S029460

PEOPLE v. GURULE

Supreme Court of California
Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
A conviction for special circumstances murder, and resulting death sentence, are affirmed after appeal on multiple guilt and sentencing phase grounds.
07/22/2002 S018815

PEOPLE v. RODRIGUEZ

Supreme Court of California
Criminal Law & Procedure
The term "recurring access", as used in Penal Code section 288.5 (penalizing the continuous sexual abuse of a child by one with "recurring access" to...
07/22/2002 S098821

PEOPLE v. MOWER

Supreme Court of California
Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law
The Compassionate Use Act of 1996, authorizing medical use of marijuana, does not confer complete immunity from prosecution, but allows a defendant to...
07/18/2002 S094490

PEOPLE v. MICHAELS

Supreme Court of California
Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Convictions and death sentence are affirmed where 1) a confession was admissible, 2) rejection of a guilty plea was proper prior to amendment of the...
07/18/2002 S016924

PEOPLE v. ENGELMAN

Supreme Court of California
Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Jury instruction, requiring jurors to inform the court of any incident of jury nullification, did not violate defendant's rights to a fair trial and a...
07/18/2002 S086462

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