CA Pub. Decisions

1. PEOPLE v. DIXON Part II
   Apr 1, 2007
   At trial where defendant was found to be a sexually violent predator and recommitted to a secured facility under the Sexually Violent Predators Act, trial court abused its discretion in granting media's request to televise or videotape the proceedings where court failed to gi…
2. PEOPLE v. SUN
   Apr 1, 2007
   Where defendant was charged with 10 separate violations of Penal Code Sec. 12020(a)(2), proscribing possession of large capacity magazines, trial court's order merging those charges into one count, in direct contradiction to the statutory authority of Sec. 12001(l), was in ex…
3. HASSO v. HASSO
   Apr 1, 2007
   Where corporation's distributions to shareholders in connection with a single transaction were less than 20 percent of the corporation's gross assets, those distributions did not constitute a "partial liquidation" of the corporation, so general rule that distribut…
4. PEOPLE v. CATLEY
   Apr 1, 2007
   Substantial evidence supported caretaker's conviction of theft by larceny where victim was a 68 year old man suffering from cognitive impairment due to Parkinson's disease and the medication taken to treat the disease, defendant took $17,000 of victim's money to buy h…
5. IN RE NEEDLES CASES
   Apr 1, 2007
   Code of Civil Procedure Sec. 170.6(a)(2), which permits a peremptory challenge to a judge to be exercised within 60 days of that judge being reassigned to a case after being reversed on appeal, applies to coordination proceedings, taking precedence over a rule of court that other…
6. CALIFORNIA STATEWIDE COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT v.ALL PERSONS INTERESTED Part I
   Apr 1, 2007
   To determine that bond funding arrangement between public entity and religiously affiliated schools is valid under state constitution's bar on government support of "sectarian" purposes or institutions, court must find that recipient school offers a broad curriculum i…
7. CALIFORNIA STATEWIDE COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT v.ALL PERSONS INTERESTED Part II
   Apr 1, 2007
   To determine that bond funding arrangement between public entity and religiously affiliated schools is valid under state constitution's bar on government support of "sectarian" purposes or institutions, court must find that recipient school offers a broad curriculum i…
8. CALIFORNIA STATEWIDE COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT v.ALL PERSONS INTERESTED Part II
   Apr 1, 2007
   To determine that bond funding arrangement between public entity and religiously affiliated schools is valid under state constitution's bar on government support of "sectarian" purposes or institutions, court must find that recipient school offers a broad curriculum i…
9. CALIFORNIA STATEWIDE COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT v.ALL PERSONS INTERESTED Part III
   Apr 1, 2007
   To determine that bond funding arrangement between public entity and religiously affiliated schools is valid under state constitution's bar on government support of "sectarian" purposes or institutions, court must find that recipient school offers a broad curriculum i…
10. PEOPLE v. GILES
    Apr 1, 2007
    Where murder defendant admitted killing victim, he forfeited his right to object on Confrontation Clause grounds to the admission of prior hearsay statements victim made several weeks before the killing in which she had told police investigating a report of domestic violence that…
11. PEOPLE v. GILES Part I
    Apr 1, 2007
    Where murder defendant admitted killing victim, he forfeited his right to object on Confrontation Clause grounds to the admission of prior hearsay statements victim made several weeks before the killing in which she had told police investigating a report of domestic violence that…
12. PEOPLE v. GILES Part II
    Apr 1, 2007
    Where murder defendant admitted killing victim, he forfeited his right to object on Confrontation Clause grounds to the admission of prior hearsay statements victim made several weeks before the killing in which she had told police investigating a report of domestic violence that…
13. MORAN v. MURTAUGH MILLER MEYER
    Apr 1, 2007
    In assessing whether a vexatious litigant has a reasonable probability of success on his claim for the purpose of determining whether he must post security, trial court may weigh the evidence presented on the security motion and is not required to assume the truth of plaintiff&#3…
14. IN RE JESUS O.
    Apr 1, 2007
    When someone, intending to steal from a victim, causes property to become separated from victim's person by provoking victim to flee resulting in victim dropping property while running away and then gains possession of the property, the theft is "from the person of anothe…
15. P. v. Munoz
    Mar 27, 2007
    Isidro Delarosa Munoz was convicted of eight sex crimes committed during attacks on three victims on three different days. (Pen. Code, 209, subd. (b)(1), 261, subd. (a)(2), 288a, subd. (c)(2), 286, subd. (c)(2).)[1] He was sentenced to state prison for a term of 133 years to life…
16. ROSS v. SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT
    Mar 19, 2007
    A modification decision.
17. PEOPLE v. ANTHONY PRICE
    Mar 19, 2007
    Violations of statutory requirements that petition for extension of commitment of sexually violent predator be filed at least 90 days and that trial commence at least 30 days prior to expiration of previous commitment were prejudicial where defense counsel could not have properly…
18. PEOPLE v. BROWN
    Mar 19, 2007
    Defendant is not entitled to specific performance of a plea agreement limiting the amount of victim restitution to victim s out of pocket expenses of $280. Where court ordered defendant to pay over $34,000 in victim restitution for amounts paid by the state to the hospital that t…
19. BONO v. DAVID
    Mar 19, 2007
    Where one party to a memorandum of understanding brought a motion to compel mediation and arbitration of the other party's defamation action pursuant to an arbitration provision in the agreement that required mediation and arbitration of "[a]ny controversy among the parti…
20. BONANDER v. TOWN OF TIBURON Part I
    Mar 19, 2007
    Lawsuit challenging a special assessment levied under the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913 for failure to comply with Proposition 218 which requires that certain types of assessments be treated as taxes subject to a public vote is subject to special procedural rules applicable t…