Articles by Topic or Issue (Sentencing Articles 101 - 180)
Sentencing Continued (Articles 101 - 180)
- Untimely Habeas Petition Due to Mental Impairment?
- Federal Armed Career Criminal Act – PC 273.5 Qualify?
- Equitable Tolling Denied for Filing Late Habeas Appeal.
- What’s the Minimum Eligible Parole Date, How Reduced?
- Commutation of a Sentence, Who’s Eligible, How to Do?
- A Pardon in California - Why Apply, When, Limits?
- A Presidential Pardon – Why Apply, When, Limits?
- SB 1437 - Jury’s Pre-Banks / Clark Findings Reliable?
- Under SB 1437, When Must Judge Appoint Free Counsel?
- SB 1437: Unconstitutional by Amending PC §§ 188, 189?
- When is Prior Conviction Outside California a Strike?
- Court May Consider Facts Admitted as Basis of Prior Plea
- Under SB 1437, Resentence to the Underlying Felony?
- Romero Motion Improperly Granted for Prior Hate Crime
- California Supreme Court & Mental Health Diversion
- Under SB 1437, How Do Jury Instructions Apply?
- SB 1437 Petition Denied in Kidnapping & Robbery Case.
- SB 1437: Felony Murder Charges, Manslaughter Conviction?
- When’s a Certificate of Probable Cause Unnecessary?
- Did SB 1437 Unconstitutionally Amend Proposition 7?
- Banks and Clark Analysis in Unarmed Assault, Robbery
- SB 1393 – Certificate of Probable Cause Required?
- Rehabilitation or Punishment? Senate Bill (SB) 1393 Appeal
- When are Consecutive, i.e. Not Concurrent, Sentences O.K.?
- To Appeal Special Circumstance Murder, File Habeas, Not 1437
- Does Penal Code 1170.91 Apply if Stipulated Sentence?
- Is There a Wende Right if Court Denies First Appeal?
- SB 1437: What’s a Major Participant, Reckless Indifference?
- Is Special Circumstance Finding Disqualifying for SB 1437?
- SB 1437 Denial Reversed When No Appointed Counsel on Case
- Under Wende, Appellate Court Duties after 1437 Denial?
- SB 1437 – When May Judge Consider Prelim Transcript?
- Does People v. Gallardo Apply to Reviewing Prior Convictions?
- SB 1437: Judge Finds Defendant a Major Participant
- What’s Primary Caregiver Diversion (Penal Code § 1001.83)?
- Senate Bill 1393: When Does Judge Abuse Discretion?
- SB 1437 Denial If Current Law Supports Murder
- SB 1437 Denied Under People v. Holmes Stipulation
- SB 1437: Does it Apply to Provocative Act Murder Doctrine?
- SB 620 Applies Retroactively to Only Nonfinal Sentences
- SB 1437 – Does it Apply to Provocative Act Murder?
- Romero Motion Considers Only the Crime Committed, Not More
- What is the New Judicial Diversion Law for 2021?
- SB 1437 Properly Denied When No Prima Facie Case Made
- AB 865: Does 1170.91(b)(1) Petition Apply if Plea Bargain?
- What is a Sentence Enhancement for a “Hate Crime?”
- Is Sentence Enhanced for Prior Hate Crime Conviction?
- Multiple Counts with Hate Crime Enhancements
- List of Great Bodily Injury Sentence Enhancements
- How are More Than One Sentencing Enhancement Applied?
- Certificate of Probable Cause Unnecessary for 1001.36
- Do Prop 57 and SB 1391 Apply in 1170(d) Resentencing?
- Judge Engages in Illegal Factfinding in 1170.95 Petition
- Sentence OK if for Robbery and Kidnapping for Robbery?
- Mental Health Diversion & Unreasonable Risk of Public Danger
- Is SB 1437 Barred if Plea to Malice Aforethought Murder?
- Felony Committed While on Bail or Own Recognizance (OR)?
- What Are the Sentencing Rules Against Dual Use of Facts?
- Does Felony Murder Special Circumstance Bar PC § 1170.95?
- What a Judge Requires from the CDCR to Resentence
- Federal Sentencing When State Court Intent to Sell
- SB 1437 Relief: Murder Resentenced to Burglary & Robbery?
- Using Report for Insanity Plea and Mental Health Diversion
- Can Rehabilitation in Prison Be 1170.26 Good Cause?
- SB 1437 / PC 1170.95, No Counsel, Is This Harmless Error?
- SB 1437 & Jury’s Rejection of Murder Special Circumstances?
- Does SB 620 Allow Judge to Lower Gun Enhancement?
- Withdrawal of a Plea in Federal Court Is Difficult
- SB 1437 Granted – Is Resentencing Ex Post Facto?
- Judge Finds Defendant Was a Major Participant in Robberies
- SB 1437: To be Appointed Counsel, Show Prima Facie Case?
- Must Federal Resentencing Follow Original Approach?
- In an Open Plea, Is Striking Prison Prior Improper?
- What is Senate Bill 483 for Resentencing? Retroactive?
- What is Senate Bill 775 for Resentencing? Retroactive?
- Judge Denied PC 1170(d)(2) Resentencing in Error
- Resentencing: Trial Court Must Allow New Evidence.
- Resentencing Under PC 1170(d)(1) by CDCR Request
- What’s AB 518 and How Does it Alter Penal Code § 654?
- Under SB 81 and PC 1385, Dismissal of Enhancements?
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