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REPLACEMENT COPY OF TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2025

Name Category Published
U.S. v. Padilla
Jury instruction regarding defendant’s choice not to testify is valid where language chosen by court sufficiently covers substance of proposed instruction. 		Criminal Law and Procedure May 9, 2011
People v. Grant
Pimping statute, which prohibits person from accepting earnings from known prostitute, does not violate defendant’s due process rights. 		Criminal Law and Procedure May 6, 2011
People v. Spector
Court does not err in admitting into evidence videotape containing trial judge and criminalist discussing blood splatter location on victim’s hands during retrial. 		Criminal Law and Procedure May 6, 2011
People v. Magee
Defendant does not have reasonable expectation of privacy inside residence he visited as social guest on numerous occasions. 		Criminal Law and Procedure May 6, 2011
Fayer v. Vaughn
Defendant’s false arrest claim fails when probable cause existed based on defendant’s admission regarding use of false identification in violation of state laws. 		Criminal Law and Procedure May 5, 2011
Doody v. Ryan
Denial of habeas relief is improper when evidence established that 'Miranda' warnings were deficient and 17-year-old petitioner was overborne by interrogation. 		Criminal Law and Procedure May 5, 2011
People v. Kennedy
Defendant whose felony conviction required lifetime sex offender registration is not relieved of obligation even after conviction is later reduced to misdemeanor. 		Criminal Law and Procedure May 5, 2011
U.S. v. Sanchez
Denial of defendant’s motion for acquittal is improper when ‘no contact’ order failed to satisfy statute’s requirement of ‘physical force against partner.’ 		Criminal Law and Procedure May 5, 2011
Bobby v. Mitts
Jury instruction given during penalty phase of trial, which instructed jury to consider death penalty or life sentence, does not violate holding of 'Beck v. Alabama.' 		Criminal Law and Procedure May 3, 2011
U.S. v. Li
Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands is part of U.S for purposes of crime of attempting to enter U.S. at time or place not designated by immigration officers. 		Criminal Law and Procedure May 3, 2011
People v. Spector
Court does not err in admitting into evidence videotape containing trial judge and criminalist discussing blood splatter location on victim’s hands during retrial. 		Criminal Law and Procedure May 3, 2011
People v. Ferguson
Court properly declines to instruct jury on defense of unconsciousness due to voluntary intoxication where defendant did not lack awareness of actions. 		Criminal Law and Procedure May 2, 2011
U.S. v. Henderson
District courts have discretion to vary from child pornography sentencing guidelines based on policy disagreements with them. 		Criminal Law and Procedure May 2, 2011
People v. Powell
Sufficient evidence supports conviction for exposing daughter to pornographic movies where victim described seeing movie in which actors engaged in sexual activity. 		Criminal Law and Procedure May 2, 2011
People v. Velasco
Prison officials do not violate defendant's due process rights in failing to preserve evidence that remained in defendant's control. 		Criminal Law and Procedure May 2, 2011
People v. Gray
Defendant waives his attorney-client communication privilege regarding documents brought to stand and used to refresh his memory in testifying. 		Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 29, 2011
Kemp v. Ryan
Defendant's rights to be free from compelled self-incrimination are not violated where officers asked him questions attendant to custody while in jail. 		Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 29, 2011
U.S. v. Nosal
Employee ‘exceeds authorized access’ to computer information under Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by violating employer’s computer use restrictions. 		Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 29, 2011
U.S. v. Whitlock
Court must disclose probation officer's sentencing recommendation following revocation of supervised release as to information it relied on in sentencing. 		Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 29, 2011
U.S. v. Maier
Court properly exercises discretion to vacate possession of child pornography charge and sentence under distribution charge based on defendant’s significant criminal activity. 		Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 27, 2011
People v. Jaska
Grand theft convictions based on series of thefts against employer are proper where they were not committed under one intention, impulse, and plan. 		Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 27, 2011
People v. Moomey
Sufficient evidence supports accessory to burglary conviction where defendant entered store with principal without apparent intent to make purchases. 		Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 26, 2011
People v. Larson
Prior conviction records made in ordinary course of business for courts are nontestimonial in nature, and not subject to Sixth Amendment confrontation requirements. 		Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 26, 2011
People v. Nguyen
Defendant’s due process rights are not violated where there is no evidence he objected to his attorney’s waiver of presence at time of recommitment trial. 		Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 25, 2011
Miller v. Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision
Oregon statute placing burden on prisoner to make showing of parole eligibility creates liberty interest in early parole eligibility. 		Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 25, 2011
U.S. v. Sandoval-Gonzalez
Conviction for being alien who reentered U.S. after deportation is vacated where burden of proof was shifted to alien to establish citizenship. 		Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 25, 2011
People v. Varela
Defendant’s conviction for evading police officer while driving motor vehicle is proper because ‘pocket bike’ is within definition of ‘motor vehicle.’ 		Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 25, 2011
People v. Valdez
Defendant may be sentenced per occurrence, not victim, under ‘one strike law,’ where sex offenses were committed against multiple victims. 		Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 25, 2011
U.S. v. Bibbins
Substantial evidence supports conviction for willfully resisting government employee where defendant failed to obey park rangers’ orders during attempted arrest. 		Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 20, 2011
People v. Robinson
Defendant's sentence under both firearm use and great bodily harm enhancements does not violate prohibition against multiple punishments under Penal Code Section 654. 		Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 20, 2011
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