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Supreme Court of California - May 2003 Opinion Summaries

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PEOPLE v. BUTTRAM

Supreme Court of California
Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
The Court of Appeal was mistaken to conclude that a certificate of probable cause was necessary to assert an abuse of sentencing discretion within the...
05/29/2003 S103761

PEOPLE v. HAMMER

Supreme Court of California
Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
A prior conviction of an earlier Penal Code section 288(a) charge, as to which defendant qualified for probation, constituted a qualifying prior...
05/29/2003 S104303

DEP'T OF FIN. v. COMM'N ON STATE MANDATES (KERN HIGH SCH. DIST.)

Supreme Court of California
Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Benefits, Government Law
Public school districts and a county that participate in certain state and federally-funded programs are not constitutionally-entitled to...
05/22/2003 S109219

PEOPLE v. NAKAHARA

Supreme Court of California
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In automatic appeal from first degree murder conviction and imposition of death penalty, trial court did not err in 1) warning defendant regarding...
05/22/2003 S018292

PEOPLE v. BATTS

Supreme Court of California
Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
When the prosecution in a criminal case commits misconduct that results in a mistrial, the double jeopardy clause of the California Constitution is...
05/19/2003 S101183

IN RE CHAVEZ

Supreme Court of California
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Rule 45(e) of the Cal. Rules of Court does not authorize the court of appeal to relieve a defendant from default resulting from failure to timely file...
05/15/2003 S099172

PEOPLE v. SMITH

Supreme Court of California
Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
On automatic appeal from imposition of death sentence, 1) allowing a late notice of aggravating evidence was not erroneous, 2) exclusion of defense...
05/08/2003 S028339

WHITE v. DAVIS

Supreme Court of California
Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies, Tax Law
In a taxpayer action filed in a state budget impasse, a preliminary injunction barring the Controller from making payments from the state treasury in...
05/01/2003 S108099

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