CA Unpub Decisions

A criminal law decision regarding willful, deliberate, and premeditated murder and possession of a firearm as a felon.

A decision regarding multiple torts, including conversion and fraud, while handling business and legal affairs.

A decision regarding an appeal from the judgment after appellant's conviction for petty theft.

A municipal employee was terminated after falsely accusing a coworker of criminal misconduct. The employee invoked an internal appeal process and an administrative hearing officer upheld the termination. The employee unsuccessfully challenged the administrative decision in a petition for a writ of mandate in the trial court. The denial of the petition was affirmed on appeal. The employee has now brought a wrongful termination lawsuit against the city and his former coworkers. The trial court dismissed the lawsuit on a motion for summary judgment, reasoning that the employee is estopped from relitigating issues adjudicated against him in the administrative proceeding. Court affirm.

Appellant was charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. After the trial court denied appellant's motion to suppress the firearm, he pled no contest to the charged offense and admitted a prior robbery charged as a strike. The trial court then sentenced him to a prison term of four years, based on double the midterm of two years pursuant to the Three Strikes law.

A decision regarding an appeal arises out of a trial court order denying a motion to strike or tax costs.

A criminal law decision regarding an appeal from the judgment following appellant's conviction for possession of a firearm by a felon and possession of a controlled substance.

After a jury trial, appellant was convicted of second degree murder of his wife. On appeal, appellant argues that his due process rights were compromised because the jury was not instructed to consider whether he failed to form the specific intent to kill due to his voluntary intoxication. Because the jury instructions urged were not warranted by the evidence, court find no error. The judgment is affirmed.

An appeal from the trial court's order extending appellant's commitment as a mentally disordered offender (â€

Plaintiffs appeal from a judgment after a court trial in their action for inverse condemnation, nuisance, and trespass. Court find no error and therefore affirm the judgment.

Appellants challenge the trial court's order denying appellants special motion to strike pursuant to the anti-SLAPP statute, Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16.Court affirm.

Appellant challenges the juvenile court's jurisdictional and dispositional orders sustaining allegations in a November 2005 petition removing his daughter from his control. Appellant challenges both the legal adequacy of notice given to him and the sufficiency of evidence supporting the juvenile court's rulings. Concluding that his illness and medical incapacity were not reason to remove minor when she was placed by the Department with the aunt whom Father had arranged to watch her, court reverse the orders.

Father appeals the jurisdictional and dispositional orders, contending that appellant did not have a history of substance abuse, was not then using drugs, and had not placed minor at a significant risk of harm. Court affirm. The juvenile court orders are supported by substantial evidence.

Father of a minor appeals from the termination of parental rights. Appellant contends the juvenile court erred in failing to find the sibling exception or the benefit exception applied to make termination detrimental to minor. Court affirm.