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Teague v. Lane-489 U.S. 288, 109 S. Ct. 1060, 103 L. Ed. 2d 334 (1989)

Case • 1989

and other offenses by an all-white jury. During jury selection, the prosecutor used all 10 of his peremptory challenges to exclude blacks. Petitioner twice unsuccessfully moved for a mistrial, arguing that he ...

The Role of Judicial Political Affiliation in Criminal Sentencing Outcomes, 2020

Publication • 2020

Filed under: Sentencing

and Congressional hearings alike. Despite these efforts disparate sentencing outcomes persist. Researchers have studied many variables seeking to understand these disparities but have been unable to form a consensus ...

Simpson v Thomas Ca Appellees Brief Re Excessive Force 2008

Brief • January 14, 2008

was insufficient to Justify a new trial. IV. The COUl1's finding there was no bias in jury selection was not enoneous. 26 A. Simpson did not make a prima facie showing that Sergeant Thomas's peremptory challenge ...

Richardson v. Ramirez-418 U.S. 24, 94 S.Ct. 2655, 41 L.Ed.2d 551 (1974).

Case • 1974

. Page 2914246] permit a voter's qualifications to be challenged on the ground that he has been convicted of "a felony" or of "the embezzlement or misappropriation of public money."*fn5 California ...

Steven Bright Lecture Discrimination Death Penalty 1995

Publication

Filed under: Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty

, 1995, at M1. 33. Id. 34. Douglas L. Colbert, Challenging the Challenge: Thirteenth Amendment as a Prohibition Against the Racial Use of Peremptory Challenges, 76 Cornell L. Rev. 1, 80 (1990) (quoting ...

Villarreal v. Allison, Secretary of CDCR, CA, Order, Prisoner Transfers, 2022

Brief • October 3, 2022

Filed under: Transfers

the incidence of violence under the prior housing system is unclear. Nor does the evidence establish how many of the thousands of inmates housed in NDPFs object to their current placements. Requiring CDCR ...

Board of Parole Hearings v. Superior Court of Santa Clara County-170 Cal. App. 4th 104, 87 Cal. Rptr. 3d 498 (6th Dist. 2009)

Case • 2009

decision; the significant circumstance is how those factors interrelate to support a conclusion of current dangerousness to the public.? (Lawrence, supra, at p. 1212.) [*113] Disposition Let a peremptory ...

Ca Commission on Fair Administration of Justice Prosecutorial and Defense Accountability Report 2007

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Filed under: Sentencing, Wrongful Conviction

misconduct is called to their attention, one consequence of the independence of each of California’s fifty-eight district attorney offices, and the civil service protection for many of their employees ...

Simpson v Thomas Ca Reply Brief Re Excessive Force 2008

Brief • 2008

for establishing a prima facie case, ho\-vever, ", [w]hether the justitlcation offered by [the party accused of exercising an improper peremptory challenge] is an adequate race-neutral explanation is a question ...

Usdc Habeas Corpus Training Materials 2003

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Filed under: Sentencing, Habeas Corpus

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 F. Peremptory Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 G. Erroneous Evidentiary Rulings ...

Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Criminal Justice System, NACDL, 2013

Publication • August 9, 2016

Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Crime/Demographics, Sentencing

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 E. Criminal Litigation Challenging Stop-and-Frisk Arrests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 VIII. Sentencing and Community Corrections — A Tale of Two Systems . . . . . 22 ...

Williams v. Woodford-306 F.3d 665 (9th Cir. 2002)

Case • 2002

[15] Stanley Williams, a prisoner on California's death row, appeals the district court's denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition challenging his 1981 conviction of multiple counts ...

Race, Bias and Problem-Solving Courts, Center for Court Innovation (Wolf)

Publication • February 12, 2016

Filed under: Discrimination, Racial Discrimination

profiling,9 police misconduct,lO misuse of peremptory challenges to exclude miriculum/units/1979/2179.02.04.x.html#b (last visited July 15, 2008) (describing how lynching was "common and tacitly sanctioned ...

Haynie v. Superior Court-26 Cal. 4th 1061, 31 P.3d 760, 112 Cal. Rptr. 2d 80 (2001)

Case • 2001

. 10/01/2001) [1] California Supreme Court [2] No. S089115 [3] 26 Cal.4th 1061, 31 P.3d 760, 112 Cal.Rptr.2d 80, 1 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 8543, 2001 Daily Journal D.A.R. 10,541 [4 ...

United States v. Quinones-205 F.Supp.2d 256 (SD NY 2002)

Case • 2002

, thereby affecting the jurors' entire view of the [**6] case. Further still, the number and ratio of peremptory challenges accorded the parties will differ materially depending on whether or not the death ...

Final Report of the PA Supreme Court Committee on Racial and Gender Bias in the Justice System, 2001

Publication • February 16, 2016

Filed under: Gender Discrimination -- Women, Racial Discrimination, Statistics/Trends

., Co-Chair, Philadelphia Kurt Saunders, Esq., Co-Chair, California Clifford Boardman, Esq., Philadelphia Joel Johnson, Esq., Philadelphia Tsiwen M. Law, Esq., Philadelphia Timothy P. O’Brien, Esq ...

Can Judicial Independence Be Attained in the South, GA State University Law Review (Bright), Vol 14, P 817, July, 1998

Publication • February 15, 2016

Filed under: Court Access, Judiciary

" of the District Attorney's Office in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama was "to use the peremptory challenges to strike as many blacks as possible from the venires in cases involving serious crimes."51 A federal court ...

Serrano v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County, CA, Appeal Brief, Distribution of Drugs, 2017

Brief • October 30, 2017

Filed under: Traffic stop, Drug-Sniffing Dog, Traffic Stops, Drug Laws/Offenses, Drug Courier or "Mule" status

for discovery’ of that information and by showing how it would support a defense to the charge against him.” (Warrick, supra, 35 Cal.4th at pp. 1018–1019.) “In 1978, the California Legislature codified ...

St. Louis University School of Law - Importance of State Law in Police Reform, Goldman, 2016

Publication • 2016

Filed under: Police Misconduct, Prosecutors

), http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/jmd/leg acy/2014/05/11/crt-justification.pdf [http://perma.cc/2WBL-XTQ4]. 15. See id. The report did not state how many officers were convicted, pled guilty ...

Architectural Heritage Association v. County of Mo-122 Cal.App.4th 1095, 19 Cal.Rptr.3d 469 (Cal.App.

Case • 2004

that the jail's structure and design are not particularly rare or unique, challenging "anyone to point out similar work in this county, either as a jail of that period or another building in this style." In its ...