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People v. Dejesus-Galindo
Because jury instructions on propensity evidence did not lower the standard of proof and evidence overwhelmingly supported jury's guilty verdict, any instructional error was harmless. 		Criminal Law and Procedure 1DCA/4 Aug. 20, 2025
Gonzalez v. Herrera
The First Step Act's time credit scheme allows for the reduction in length of a supervised release term. 		Criminal Law and Procedure 9th Aug. 20, 2025
Gomez v. Superior Court (People)
Trial court abused its discretion in denying plaintiff's mental health diversion request when prosecution failed to rebut the presumption that the mental disorder was a causal factor. 		Criminal Law and Procedure 3DCA Aug. 19, 2025
Amended Opinion: U.S. v. Plancarte
Government did not breach plea agreement by submitting supplemental memorandum opining about defendant's "worrying" conduct and past arrest history. 		Criminal Law and Procedure 9th Aug. 19, 2025
People v. Alvarez
Trial court did not err in denying motion to sever two murder trials, where similarities in both murders rendered evidence cross-admissible to establish intent and lack of mistake. 		Criminal Law and Procedure CASC Aug. 19, 2025
People v. Cannon
Jury trial waiver procedure under the Sexually Violent Predators Act should be subject only to rational-basis review because it does not implicate a fundamental right or interest. 		Criminal Law and Procedure CASC Aug. 19, 2025
People v. Skaggs
Trial court erred by construing non-statutory motion to dismiss on constitutional due process grounds as a section 1385 motion, which led it to incorrectly conclude that it lacked authority to consider the motion. 		Criminal Law and Procedure 1DCA/3 Aug. 18, 2025
People v. Pena
Penal Code section 136.2(i)(1) does not authorize trial courts to issue protective orders for victims of a crime other than the one of which defendant was convicted. 		Criminal Law and Procedure 2DCA/7 Aug. 15, 2025
People v. Hayde
Trial court erred in not taking into account various factors of veteran's history to resentence him pursuant to Penal Code section 1170.91. 		Criminal Law and Procedure 4DCA/3 Aug. 14, 2025
Bieganski v. Shinn
Because Arizona's statutory scheme shifted the burden of proving an essential element of the sexual molestation crime, it unconstitutionally violated the Due Process Clause. 		Criminal Law and Procedure, Habeas Corpus 9th Aug. 13, 2025
People v. Fleming
Where trial court's language did not "clearly indicate" that it would have imposed the upper sentence, case was remanded for resentencing. 		Criminal Law and Procedure 2DCA/6 Aug. 7, 2025
People v. Harlow
Defendant was eligible for mental health diversion even though his diagnoses came three years after offense because the diagnoses were made within the window established by the Legislature. 		Criminal Law and Procedure 4DCA/1 Aug. 7, 2025
U.S. v. Bradford
Indictment was not duplicitous where its counts merely described multiple means by which the defendant could commit a single crime rather than including multiple offenses in a single count. 		Criminal Law and Procedure 9th Aug. 5, 2025
People v. Dain
The proper remedy for errors in a trial court's order dismissing a strike under the Three Strikes Law is a remand that allows for further proceedings-- not remand with directions. 		Criminal Law and Procedure CASC Aug. 5, 2025
People v. Faial
Probation could not be revoked where ameliorative legislation operated retroactively to shorten probationer's term such that it terminated before the revocation occurred. 		Criminal Law and Procedure CASC Aug. 1, 2025
Amended Opinion: In re: Joshua Davis
Mandatory Victims Restitution Act permitted victims to seek amended restitution order where they discovered the original order did not include losses that were unclaimed due to government error. 		Criminal Law and Procedure 9th Aug. 11, 2025
In re Huerta
Alleged racial disparity in gang enhancements, standing alone, did not qualify as an eligible "offense" for purposes of habeas petitioner's Racial Justice Act claim. 		Criminal Law and Procedure, Habeas Corpus 5DCA Jul. 31, 2025
People v. Christensen
Sentence of life without the possibility of parole imposed on kidnapper who was 18 years old at the time of the offense did not violate the Eighth Amendment. 		Criminal Law and Procedure 4DCA/3 Jul. 31, 2025
People v. Gresham
Despite defendant's confusion during arrest, because evidence supported that defendant "reasonably should have known" he was resisting officers, his conviction was affirmed. 		Criminal Law and Procedure 2DCA/8 Jul. 30, 2025
Criminal Justice Legal Foundation v. Dept. of Corrections & Rehabilitation
Regulations adopted under voter initiative that allowed applying good behavior credits to advance minimum eligible parole dates for inmates serving certain indeterminate sentences was inconsistent with existing law and invalid. 		Criminal Law and Procedure 3DCA Jul. 30, 2025
People v. Torres
Mitigating circumstance for enhancements resulting in sentences exceeding 20 years did not apply where the sentence without the enhancement already exceeded 20 years. 		Criminal Law and Procedure 3DCA Jul. 30, 2025
People v. Superior Court (Valdez)
Where defendant was already resentenced from life without the possibility of parole to a lesser sentence, he was not subsequently entitled to relief under Penal Code section 1170(d)(10). 		Criminal Law and Procedure 4DCA/2 Jul. 28, 2025
People v. Dunn
Though defendant's shootings in a small town made the news, trial court's denial of venue change was appropriate because facts supported that he could obtain a fair and impartial trial. 		Criminal Law and Procedure CASC Jul. 25, 2025
People v. Cunningham
Defendant was ineligible for Penal Code section 1172.6 because jury instructions, along with verdict, established defendant acted with malice. 		Criminal Law and Procedure 2DCA/6 Jul. 24, 2025
People v. Benitez-Torres
Attorney's failure to understand and explain the immigration consequences of a guilty plea prejudiced client and entitled him to relief under Penal Code 1473.7. 		Criminal Law and Procedure 4DCA/3 Jul. 24, 2025
People v. Cota
Under Penal Code section 1172.75, trial court maintained jurisdiction to resentence defendant with prison priors despite CDCR's failure to provide the court with the list of eligible inmates. 		Criminal Law and Procedure 6DCA Jul. 23, 2025
U.S. v. Hassan
The Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a fair trial permits the trier of fact to compare, for identification purposes, photographs or video of the culprit with the defendant's in-court appearance. 		Criminal Law and Procedure 9th Jul. 23, 2025
U.S. v. Bryant
Despite being sentenced to 70 years when he was 16 years old, defendant's youth, as a standalone factor, was not enough to warrant compassionate release. 		Criminal Law and Procedure 9th Jul. 22, 2025
People v. Choyce
Claims of prosecutorial misconduct were forfeited where neither a timely objection regarding misconduct was made nor any jury admonishment sought despite several sustained, contemporaneous evidentiary objections. 		Criminal Law and Procedure CASC Jul. 22, 2025
U.S. v. Ghanem
Refusing offense-level reduction for accepting responsibility was not clear error where the defendant's conduct, including attempting to minimize his involvement in the offense, was inconsistent with accepting responsibility. 		Criminal Law and Procedure 9th Jul. 18, 2025
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