Independ State Grounds

Name: Johnson v. Lee
Case #: 15-789
Opinion Date: 05/31/2016
  • Categories: Appeals, Areas Constitutional Law, Independ State Grounds, Independ State Grounds, Review Principles

Summary

California's procedural bar requiring defendants to raise available claims on direct appeal instead of by habeas petition is adequate to preclude federal review. Lee and her boyfriend were convicted of two counts of first degree murder. In 1999, her claims…

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Name: People v. Sanchez
Case #: H022692
Opinion Date: 08/19/2002
  • Categories: Admin Searches, Areas Constitutional Law, Classification of controlled substances, Const./Statutory Reqmts, Defenses, Independ State Grounds, Mental, Other, Res judicata/collateral estoppel, Right to Counsel, Search & Seizure, Statute of limitations

Summary

The gang registration requirement of Proposition 21 is not unconstitutionally vague or overbroad, and does not violate the rights to privacy, against unreasonable search, against self-incrimination, to counsel, and against cruel and unusual punishment. It also does not violate the…

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Name: People v. Renteria
Case #: B146784
Opinion Date: 10/31/2001
  • Categories: Areas Constitutional Law, General Principles, Independ State Grounds, Jury Deliberations, Jury Instructions, Trial Proceedings

Summary

The trial court reversibly erred under the state constitutional right to a jury trial, when , after substituting an alternate juror for one who fell ill, it failed to instruct the jury sua sponte to disregard its previous deliberations and…

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