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   State Courts - California - April 25 - April 26, 2006

  
In re Vanessa M., A109479, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION FIVE, April 25, 2006, Filed
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Overview: In a juvenile dependency proceeding under Welf. & Inst. Code, § 300, a father's due process rights were violated because the trial court barred the father's testimony as a sanction for prior failures to appear. Error was not harmless because the testimony could have been useful on vigorously disputed issues, such as father's current drug use.

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Mayes v. Bryan, B172533, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION THREE, April 25, 2006, Filed
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Overview: In a wrongful death action, the record showed that the trial court found that the defense had requested a modification to BAJI No. 3.76's substantial factor instruction. Thus, the defense invited any error in the substantial factor instruction.

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People v. Shabtay, B179520, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION FIVE, April 25, 2006, Filed
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Overview: Defendant should only have been convicted of one violation of Pen. Code, § 484e, subd. (b), for acquiring access cards in names of four or more persons within a three month period because there could only be only one violation of the statute within any consecutive 12-month period. Thus, one of two § 484e, subd. (b), convictions had to be reversed.

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People v. Wilson, D046198, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION ONE, April 25, 2006, Filed
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Overview: The evidence was sufficient to convict defendant of felony child endangerment under Pen. Code, § 273a, because she had forced her 10-year-old son go through an open window of a neighbor's locked house to facilitate her burglary of the residence, which was a highly dangerous undertaking that exposed the child to a number of serious physical dangers.

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Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc. v. Helliker, B175450, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION THREE, April 25, 2006, Filed
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Overview: Pesticide manufacturers were entitled to a declaratory judgment construing former Food & Agr. Code, § 12811.5, to mean that the California Department of Pesticide Regulation could not use or consider their original data in support of a subsequent application for pesticide product registration without their consent to such use or consideration.

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Huff v. Wilkins, D044895, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION ONE, April 26, 2006, Filed
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People v. Lai, B165662, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION FOUR, April 26, 2006, Filed
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Overview: In a welfare fraud case, the trial court should not have imposed a non-stayed two-year enhancement under Pen. Code, § 12022.6, subd. (a)(2), because Pen. Code, § 186.11, subd. (a)(3), provided for a single consecutive term calculated by reference to Pen. Code, § 12022.6, subd. (a), but not an additional term under § 12022.6, subd. (a).

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People v. Thimmes, H028897, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SIXTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, April 26, 2006, Filed
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Overview: In a plea bargain case, counsel was rendered ineffective by failing to determine that defendant could not have been warned that his 1999 conviction under Pen. Code, § 422, would count as a strike. Absent the presumption that he was warned, the trial court might not have denied defendant's motion to strike the prior criminal threat conviction.

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Stevenson Real Estate Services, Inc. v. CB Richard Ellis Real Estate Services, Inc., B179798, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION EIGHT, April 26, 2006, Filed
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Overview: Granting of motion for judgment on pleading, Code Civ. Proc., § 438, against real estate broker was proper; broker did not plead wrongful conduct in support of its interference with prospective economic advantage claim because allegations of other broker's violation of realtor association's rules and Bus. & Prof. Code, § 17200, were inadequate.

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Zuniga v. Los Angeles County Civil Service Commission, B179975, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION FOUR, April 26, 2006, Filed
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