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   State Courts - California - March 16, 2009

  
Chang v. Lederman, B199813, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION SEVEN, March 16, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Estate attorney owed no duty of care to a testator's widow, who was an expressly named beneficiary of a trust, as to an allegation that the testator intended to revise his trust and will to leave his entire estate to her and would have done so but for the attorney's negligence; recognizing such a duty would impose an undue burden on the profession.

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In re K.M., No. B206435, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION SIX, March 16, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Although a child's mother argued that the child's maternal great-grandmother might have provided information about possible heritage in some other Indian tribe, a county human services agency did all that could or should have been reasonably expected of it under the Indian Child Welfare Act.

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In re McGraw, F054655, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FIFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, March 16, 2009, Filed
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In re Rozzo, D049704, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION ONE, March 16, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Some evidence supported the Governor's decision under Cal. Const. art. V, ? 8, that an inmate was unsuitable for parole because there was evidence in the record that after amassing an increasingly serious criminal record, the inmate committed an unprovoked, heinous, atrocious and cruel murder, motivated by racial hatred that he never acknowledged.

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Peak-Las Positas Partners v. Bollag, No. B205091, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION SIX, March 16, 2009, Filed
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Overview: In a case relating to a land sale contract, the trial court properly found that the seller acted unreasonably and ordered the seller to extend the escrow because under Civ. Code, ? 3275, equity abhorred a forfeiture, and the buyer stood to lose $ 465,000 already paid (98 percent of the purchase price) and about $ 5 million in project costs.

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People v. Grimes, C058369, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT, March 16, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Although the superior court clerk did not comply with Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.304(c)(1), when she failed to promptly mail to the appellate court notification of the filing of defendant's notice of appeal, the judgment was affirmed because defendant was not prejudiced.

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People v. Kim, S153183, SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA, March 16, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Defendant was procedurally barred from obtaining coram nobis relief because his presentation of claims after completing parole was untimely, he had other legal remedies as contemplated by Civ. Code, ? 3523, and he presented his claims piecemeal; moreover, his alleged ignorance of the deportation consequences of his plea was not a mistake of fact.

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People v. Maldonado, H031506, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SIXTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, March 16, 2009, Filed
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Overview: In a case in which defendant was convicted for possessing methamphetamine for sale, defense counsel was not ineffective for failing to object to evidence that defendant was unemployed at the time of his arrest. Defendant's statement to a police officer that he was unemployed was relevant to show that defendant had a motive to sell drugs.

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People v. Villa, S151561, SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA, March 16, 2009, Filed
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Overview: In a case involving a resident alien facing deportation for a 1989 conviction for a drug crime, the alien, who was being detained by federal immigration authorities in Alabama, was ineligible for habeas corpus relief because the alien was no longer in state custody as a result of the 1989 conviction.

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