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People v. Orozco

California Court of Appeal
Criminal Law & Procedure
Affirmed the admission of a defendant's murder confession, ruling on several issues bearing on its admissibility. He confessed to a person he was...
02/28/2019 B288942

People v. Alvarez

California Court of Appeal
Criminal Law & Procedure
Affirmed a man's conviction of second-degree murder for causing a fatal motor vehicle accident by running a red light while under the influence of...
02/28/2019 D074457

People v. Amezcua

Supreme Court of California
Sentencing, Criminal Law & Procedure
Affirmed the death sentences of two men convicted of multiple first-degree murders and other gang-related crimes, on an automatic appeal.
02/28/2019 S133660

People v. Matthews

California Court of Appeal
Criminal Law & Procedure
Affirmed a murder conviction, holding that a mistake pertaining to a superfluous element of a jury instruction did not constitute instructional error.
02/28/2019 B286202

Jones v. Zatecky

United States Seventh Circuit
Habeas Corpus, Criminal Law & Procedure
Held that an Indiana inmate was entitled to a writ of habeas corpus based on his attorney's failure to object to an untimely amendment to his charges....
02/28/2019 17-2606

US v. Araiza-Jacobo

United States Fifth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure
Affirmed a drug-trafficking conviction in a case where the defendant denied having knowledge that two bags of hard candies he was carrying were...
02/28/2019 17-40958

People v. Chamizo

California Court of Appeal
Sentencing, Criminal Law & Procedure
Dismissed the sentencing appeal of a man who pleaded no contest to transporting cocaine. Held that a recent statutory amendment related to sentencing...
02/27/2019 C086712

People v. Brown

California Court of Appeal
Criminal Law & Procedure
Held that a defendant's felony conviction for receiving stolen property worth more than $950 must be reduced to a misdemeanor. The People should not...
02/27/2019 A153191

Madison v. Alabama

United States Supreme Court
Sentencing, Criminal Law & Procedure
Held that the Eighth Amendment may permit executing a prisoner even if he cannot remember committing his crime, but it may forbid execution if his...
02/27/2019 17–7505

Garza v. Idaho

United States Supreme Court
Criminal Law & Procedure
Held that a defendant who had, in the course of pleading guilty, signed what is often called an appeal waiver was entitled to the presumption of...
02/27/2019 17–1026

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