CA Pub. Decisions

1. MOGHADDAM v. BONE
   Aug 28, 2006
   Trial court's ruling granting defendant's motion to set aside default and default judgment was void where defendant used wrong zip code when mailing notice of motion to plaintiff and plaintiff denied receiving it. In reconsideration of defendant's motion to set aside …
2. PEOPLE v. STANLEY PART- I
   Aug 28, 2006
   Criminal defendant's request for self-representation was properly denied where defendant did not fully appreciate that he would be forgoing right to assistance of appointed counsel if permitted to represent himself. Trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying defendan…
3. PEOPLE v. STANLEY PART- II
   Aug 28, 2006
   Criminal defendant's request for self-representation was properly denied where defendant did not fully appreciate that he would be forgoing right to assistance of appointed counsel if permitted to represent himself. Trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying defendan…
4. PEOPLE v. STANLEY PART- III
   Aug 28, 2006
   Criminal defendant's request for self-representation was properly denied where defendant did not fully appreciate that he would be forgoing right to assistance of appointed counsel if permitted to represent himself. Trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying defendan…
5. PEOPLE v. STANLEY PART- IV
   Aug 28, 2006
   Criminal defendant's request for self-representation was properly denied where defendant did not fully appreciate that he would be forgoing right to assistance of appointed counsel if permitted to represent himself. Trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying defendan…
6. PEOPLE v. ALBERT LEWIS Part-I
   Aug 28, 2006
   Self-represented defendant may relinquish right to continue representing self in absence of substantial evidence of mental incompetence. Excusal of potential juror for cause in capital case was appropriate where answers to questions about death penalty were equivocal and included…
7. PEOPLE v. ALBERT LEWIS Part-II
   Aug 28, 2006
   Self-represented defendant may relinquish right to continue representing self in absence of substantial evidence of mental incompetence. Excusal of potential juror for cause in capital case was appropriate where answers to questions about death penalty were equivocal and included…
8. PEOPLE v. ALBERT LEWIS Part-III
   Aug 28, 2006
   Self-represented defendant may relinquish right to continue representing self in absence of substantial evidence of mental incompetence. Excusal of potential juror for cause in capital case was appropriate where answers to questions about death penalty were equivocal and included…
9. PEOPLE v. ALBERT LEWIS Part-IV
   Aug 28, 2006
   Self-represented defendant may relinquish right to continue representing self in absence of substantial evidence of mental incompetence. Excusal of potential juror for cause in capital case was appropriate where answers to questions about death penalty were equivocal and included…
10. PEOPLE v. ALBERT LEWIS Part-V
    Aug 28, 2006
    Self-represented defendant may relinquish right to continue representing self in absence of substantial evidence of mental incompetence. Excusal of potential juror for cause in capital case was appropriate where answers to questions about death penalty were equivocal and included…
11. PEOPLE v. ALBERT LEWIS Part-VI
    Aug 28, 2006
    Self-represented defendant may relinquish right to continue representing self in absence of substantial evidence of mental incompetence. Excusal of potential juror for cause in capital case was appropriate where answers to questions about death penalty were equivocal and included…
12. PEOPLE v. ALBERT LEWIS Part-VII
    Aug 28, 2006
    Self-represented defendant may relinquish right to continue representing self in absence of substantial evidence of mental incompetence. Excusal of potential juror for cause in capital case was appropriate where answers to questions about death penalty were equivocal and included…
13. In re FRANK S.,
    Aug 25, 2006
    Where officer in violation of knock-and-announce rule entered home and arrested youth on suspicion of violating parole condition. In search incident to arrest, discovered drugs in youth's inner jacket pocket. The youth's counsel at trial on drug possession charges was not…
14. THOMPSON, v. LOS ANGELES
    Aug 25, 2006
    Where plaintiff sued police officers for injuries sustained when officers used police dog to find plaintiff who was injured by dog and by officers when they were trying to stop plaintiff from fighting with dog. Trial court correctly refused to instruct jury on definition of deadl…
15. SEEVER v. COPLEY PRESS, INC.,
    Aug 25, 2006
    A modification decision.
16. PEOPLE v. HAYES
    Aug 25, 2006
    Evidence that probationer, in seeking to avoid arrest, kicked a concrete ashtray that was next to an officer seeking to arrest him. Kicking as "hard as he could" and "with great force" and causing ashtray, which was approximately three feet high and weighed about …
17. FININEN v. BARLOW
    Aug 25, 2006
    Trial court properly denied motion to vacate arbitration award.
18. PEOPLE v. JEFFERY
    Aug 25, 2006
    Trial court's statement that it would not commit eligible defendant to California Rehabilitation Center for a "variety of reasons" did not comply with requirement of California Rules of Court that reasons be stated with specificity; without such statement, remand is r…
19. WIRTH v. STATE OF CALIFORNIA
    Aug 25, 2006
    Department of Personnel Administration did not violate statutes requiring that supervisors of correctional officers receive salary and benefits changes that are at least generally equivalent to the changes granted to their rank and file subordinates and that a supervisory compens…
20. Amy G., v. M. W.,
    Aug 22, 2006
    Statutory presumptions of paternity contained in the Family Code do not enable the wife of a man who fathered a child in an extramarital relationship to assert status as the child's mother when the child's biological mother has come forward promptly to assert her maternal…