Waiver

Name: People v. Perez
Case #: S248730
Opinion Date: 02/27/2020
  • Categories: Areas Constitutional Law, Confront/Cross-exam, Evidence, Expert Witness, Gang Affiliation, Waiver

Summary

Defendant's failure to object at trial, before People v. Sanchez (2016) 63 Cal.4th 665 was decided, did not forfeit a claim that a gang expert's testimony related case-specific hearsay in violation of the confrontation clause. Perez, Chavez, and Sandoval were…

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Name: People v. Jones
Case #: B279694
Opinion Date: 08/21/2018
  • Categories: Accomplice Testimony, Appeals, Areas Constitutional Law, Evidence, Insufficiency/Sufficiency of, Right to Jury Trial, Trial Proceedings, Waiver, Waiver of Right

Summary

Murder conviction reversed where defendant's waiver of jury trial after bare two-question inquiry was not knowing and voluntary. Jones was convicted of second degree murder and child abuse following the death of her four-month-old daughter. On appeal she argued her…

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Name: United States v. Barnes
Case #: 11-30107
Opinion Date: 04/18/2013
  • Categories: Areas Constitutional Law, Confessions, Interrogations & Confessions, Miranda v. Arizona, Right Against Self-incrim, Waiver

Summary

Defendant's federal drug conviction reversed where FBI agents deliberately delayed giving Miranda warnings in an effort to induce self-incrimination. Defendant was convicted of a federal drug offense after the trial court denied his motion to suppress statements he gave to…

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