California Court of Appeal unpublished opinions (not citable under CRC 8.1115).
-
P. v. Sanders CA6
Oct 26, 2022
On September 24, 2015, the Santa Clara County District Attorney filed an information charging Sanders with five counts of second degree robbery (Pen. Code, §§ 211, 212.5, subd. (b)). As to each count, the information alleged that Sanders personally used a handgun in committing th…
-
P. v. Clark CA4/3
Oct 26, 2022
In January 2019, an information charged Clark with three counts of arson and making criminal threats. As to two counts, the information alleged he burned multiple structures. At a pretrial hearing, Clark’s counsel declared a doubt as to Clark’s competency. The trial court suspend…
-
P. v. Salgado CA4/3
Oct 26, 2022
After Salgado shot at a rival gang member but killed another, he was charged with one count of first degree murder (§ 187, subd. (a); count 1), one count of attempted premeditated murder (§§ 187, subd. (a), 664; count 2), two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm (§ 245,…
-
In re S.S. CA4/3
Oct 26, 2022
In July of 2021, after a contested jurisdictional hearing, Superior Court Judge Katherine Lewis found it to be true that appellant S.S. (a juvenile) had violated Penal Code section 211 (robbery). Specifically, the court found that appellant and another man accosted the victim, pu…
-
P. v. Thompson CA4/3
Oct 26, 2022
At the behest of a man who agreed to pay them $5,000, Thompson and his codefendants John Solis and Robert Sesma agreed to murder Vaudra “Butch” Nunley. As part of their murder plan, defendants lured Nunley to Solis’ house late one evening. Nunley arrived at the house with a compa…
-
N.F. v. Superior Court CA5
Oct 26, 2022
One-month-old A.F. (the baby) presented to the emergency room on July 3, 2021, with bruising on her face, chest, mid-back, and arm. Further evaluation revealed multiple bilateral rib fractures of varying age, a left pulmonary contusion and left hemothorax. The fractures and labor…
-
In re J.M. CA5
Oct 26, 2022
On April 1, 2021, the agency filed a section 300 petition alleging the children were at risk of harm due to a bruise on J.M., age eight, inflicted non-accidentally by mother and a bite mark on M.L., age five, inflicted non-accidentally by Martin L., alleged father of M.L. and B.L…
-
P. v. Espinosa CA5
Oct 26, 2022
Defendant and M.M. were in an on-again, off-again dating relationship for several years. Defendant had a history of physically abusing M.M. while they were together, and harassing her when she tried to end the relationship on different occasions. On May 6, 2019, at 3:00 a.m., def…
-
P. v. Loya CA5
Oct 26, 2022
Loya and H.G. were high school friends. They went their separate ways after graduating in 2016, but resumed their friendship in the summer of 2018 after Loya saw H.G. at her place of employment. They began texting regularly and met up approximately four times in the two-week peri…
-
P. v. Morales CA5
Oct 26, 2022
The prosecution established that, in April 2019, appellant was driving a vehicle with a suspended driver’s license. He was stopped by a Delano police officer, Joshua Garcia, after Garcia observed appellant driving at night without headlights. Garcia also saw appellant cross a dou…
-
P. v. Morales CA5
Oct 26, 2022
The prosecution established that, in April 2019, appellant was driving a vehicle with a suspended driver’s license. He was stopped by a Delano police officer, Joshua Garcia, after Garcia observed appellant driving at night without headlights. Garcia also saw appellant cross a dou…
-
P. v. Baggett CA5
Oct 26, 2022
Originally charged by complaint, defendant was held to answer after a preliminary hearing on October 10, 2018. The District Attorney of Merced County filed an information charging defendant with failing to reregister as a sex offender upon becoming transient (Pen. Code, § 290.011…
-
In re N.C. CA4/2
Oct 26, 2022
Mother and her daughters, N.C. and T.C., lived together. Father provided for, and visited his daughter, N.C., on weekends. The family came to the attention of the Riverside County Department of Social Services (DPSS) on December 28, 2020, after a referral was received with allega…
-
In re E.L. CA4/1
Oct 26, 2022
In October 2021, the Agency filed a section 300, subdivision (b)(1) petition for then one-week-old E.L., alleging that she and her mother, S. S.-H. (Mother), tested positive for amphetamine and opiates at E.L.’s birth. In its detention report, the Agency stated that Mother told i…
-
Save Our Students-Safety etc. v. County of San Die
Oct 26, 2022
SOS2 is a nonprofit organization that formed in 2020 to oppose the construction of a high school at a location SOS2 deems too dangerous. At the December 9, 2020 meeting of its Board of Supervisors, the County considered SOS2’s appeal of the decision of the County’s Planning Commi…
-
P. v. Gumienny CA4/1
Oct 26, 2022
In 2009, the People charged Gumienny with one count of oral copulation or sexual penetration with a child 10 years old or younger (§ 288.7, subd. (b)) and 10 counts of lewd or lascivious acts upon a child under age 14 (§ 288, subd. (a).) He pled guilty to one count of sexual pene…
-
In re K.B. CA3
Oct 26, 2022
Minor was born in 2006 during the marriage of mother and father, J.B. (father). The parents divorced when minor was approximately seven years old. Father was granted sole legal and physical custody over minor in family law court based on allegations that mother physically and emo…
-
Trebas v. Ahlin CA3
Oct 26, 2022
Plaintiff was involuntarily committed and confined at Atascadero State Hospital and Coalinga State Hospital from August 28, 2004, through March 17, 2017. According to plaintiff, as of October 2005 or thereabouts, his diagnosed schizoaffective disorder, the legal basis for his con…
-
P. v. Rabbitt CA3
Oct 26, 2022
In case No. CRF-20-752 (752), during a traffic stop of defendant, a Yuba County police officer conducted an inventory search and found over 37 grams of individually bagged methamphetamine and scales. Defendant pleaded guilty to possession for sale of methamphetamine (Health & Saf…
-
P. v. Findlay CA3
Oct 26, 2022
At defendant’s jury trial, his roommate, C.T., testified that on the night of January 18 and the morning of January 19, 2021, defendant consumed 8 to 12 cans of beer and played his music so loud C.T. felt it could damage his ears through the walls. Over several hours, defendant p…