California Court of Appeal unpublished opinions (not citable under CRC 8.1115).
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Caldwell v. Quintero CA2/4
INTRODUCTION Defendant Chelsea Quintero1 appeals from an interlocutory default judgment entered against her mother and predecessor in interest, Iris Caldwell. After the notice of appeal was filed, the trial court set aside the default judgment. We conclude that this appeal is moo…
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Behrend v. San Francisco Zen Center Inc. CA1/4
MEMORANDUM OPINION1 Alexander Behrend appeals a judgment entered in favor of the San Francisco Zen Center Inc. (Center) and individual defendants Linda Galijan and Mike Smith on his claims for unpaid wages and related interest and penalties under Labor Code2 sections 98.1, 203, a…
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Wright v. Kokayi CA1/2
This is the third appeal by self-represented appellant Dustan Wright in an extremely litigious dispute with the administrator of the estate of Mary Esther Bates and her heirs over Wright’s continued occupancy of Bates’s home located in Oakland, California for more than a decade f…
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Trowbridge v. Pacific Life Ins. Co. CA4/3
* * * The beneficiaries of a trust sued Pacific Life Insurance Company asserting a claim for breach of fiduciary duty and civil conspiracy and seeking rescission with respect to Pacific Life’s underwriting of an indexed universal life insurance policy owned by the trust. The tria…
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Tripathi v. City of La Canada Flintridge CA2/1
Plaintiffs Daniel J. and Leanna Tripathi appeal from a judgment in favor of defendant and respondent City of La Cañada Flintridge (the City). The Tripathis argue the trial court erred in precluding one of their witnesses from offering expert testimony, and that error prevented th…
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The Regents of the U. of Cal. v. City of Riverside CA4/1
I The Regents of the University of California (hereafter, the Regents) filed a petition for writ of traditional mandamus and declaratory relief against the City of Riverside (hereafter, the City) challenging a sewer capacity charge that the City imposed on the Regents as a condit…
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Romero v. LaserAway CA2/1
Plaintiff Steven Romero appeals from the denial of his motion for a new trial in an action arising from an accident in which defendant LaserAway, LLC’s employee struck pedestrian Romero with a truck. Romero filed his new trial motion after the jury returned a 10-to-2 verdict find…
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P. v. Rollins CA1/1
The People appeal from an order granting defendant Davante Rollins’s motion to dismiss a felony case for vindictive prosecution. They claim the trial court applied an incorrect legal standard in ruling and there was insufficient evidence of vindictiveness under the correct standa…
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P. v. Tran CA4/3
The Attorney General argues this court lacks jurisdiction to consider this appeal because the trial court lacked an independent basis to correct the illegal sentences. Alternatively, the Attorney General argues the denial of full resentencing is harmless because the trial court s…
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P. v. Reed CA3
In July 2023, defendant Frederick Vinceson Reed got into an altercation with the victim E.P. outside a homeless shelter where both men were staying. A jury found Reed guilty of simple battery and assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury, and he was sentence…
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P. v. Harrell CA4/3
Defendant Gary Tiran Harrell appeals an order denying his petition for resentencing under Penal Code section 1172.6.1 His appointed attorney filed a brief under the procedures described in People v. Delgadillo (2022) 14 Cal.5th 216, declaring he was unable to find any issues to r…
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P. v. Henderson CA1/3
We remand for resentencing but otherwise affirm. Late in the evening on April 24, 2022, a man was driving his truck home. A city surveillance camera recorded Lewis Parker driving a black sedan and involved in a road rage incident with the man in the truck. Afterward, the man pull…
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P. v. Colvin CA1/3
A175767; People v. Colvin
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P. v. Farmer CA2/8
Dennis Farmer argues his trial counsel provided ineffective assistance at his attempted murder trial. We affirm the judgment. After Farmer repeatedly shot Emilio Mayes, his fellow resident in a transitional housing building, he was charged with willful, deliberate, and premeditat…
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P. v. Delgado CA2/7
Andy Delgado appeals from a judgment of conviction entered after a jury found him guilty of two counts of attempted murder, second degree robbery, attempted second degree robbery, grand theft, second degree burglary, and two counts of possession of a firearm by a felon. Delgado c…
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P. v. Hunter CA2/4
INTRODUCTION In 2025, the trial court recalled defendant Damian Jamal Hunter’s sentence pursuant to Penal Code section 1172.75,1 struck three one-year prior prison term enhancements (§ 667.5, sub. (b)) and a five-year serious felony enhancement (§ 667, subd. (a)) and resentenced …
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P. v. Perez CA2/6
Manuel Solomon Perez appeals from the judgment after he pleaded no contest to being a felon in possession of a firearm (Pen. Code,1 § 29800, subd. (a)(1)) and placed on probation. He contends the trial court erred when it denied his motion to suppress because the officer who cond…
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P. v. Huynh CA2/1
Appellant Alan Cuong Huynh appeals from his conviction of felony hit and run resulting in death. Appellant’s appointed appellate counsel filed a brief pursuant to People v. Wende (1979) 25 Cal.3d 436 (Wende), identifying no issues and requesting this court to review the record an…
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P. v. Weston CA4/1
Defendant Nicholas Weston appeals the judgment on his convictions for rape of an unconscious person (Pen. Code,1 § 261, subd. (a)(4)) and forcible 1 Undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code. rape (§ 261, subd. (a)(2)). His appointed appellate counsel filed an openi…
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P. v. Intong CA4/1
In 2024, a jury convicted Robert Donald Intong of first degree murder (Pen. Code, § 187, subd. (a).)1 Intong argues that the prosecutor’s statements 1 Further section references are to the Penal Code. in closing argument constituted plain error. Intong further contends, and the P…