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   State Courts - California - August 6 - August 7, 2009

  
Abbott Laboratories v. Franchise Tax Bd., B204210, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION THREE, August 6, 2009, Filed
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In re Jason J., D054188, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION ONE, August 6, 2009, Filed
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People v. Acosta, E046956, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION TWO, August 6, 2009, Filed
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Overview: When defendant committed a lewd and lascivious act on a minor in Riverside County, California, after having committed a similar act on another minor in San Bernardino County, defendant could be tried for both offenses in a unitary trial in Riverside County, thus subjecting him to Pen. Code, ¿ 667.61, subd. (e)(5).

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People v. Bhasin, E046137, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION TWO, August 6, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Sufficient evidence supported convictions for violating Pen. Code, ¿¿ 132, 134, by obtaining an official document using false information and giving that document to counsel for use in cross-examination; the document was offered into evidence under ¿ 132 and was prepared by defendant for purposes of ¿ 134, although he did not physically create it.

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People v. McWhorter, S068536, SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA, August 6, 2009, Filed
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Overview: In a capital murder trial under Pen. Code, ¿ 187, defendant's second taped statement was not the tainted product of a prior that was statement excluded as coerced because there were sufficient indices of attenuation, including that more than a week transpired and that the second statement was furnished in an effort to recant the earlier confession.

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In re Marriage of Nurie, A121719, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION TWO, August 7, 2009, Filed
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Overview: In a custody dispute regarding whether California or Pakistan had jurisdiction under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act, the California court that dissolved the marriage had initial home state jurisdiction, it never lost jurisdiction, and its order granting custody to husband was valid when entered and remained valid.

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In re R.P., B208425, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION THREE, August 7, 2009, Filed
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Overview: A probation condition prohibiting defendant juvenile from possessing any "dangerous or deadly weapon" was not unconstitutionally vague. "Dangerous or deadly weapon" had a plain commonsense meaning sufficient to put defendant on notice of the conduct prohibited by the probation condition.

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M.S. v. O.S., D053996, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION ONE, August 7, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Attorney fees that an Indian tribe paid directly to attorneys on behalf of a father should not have been included in the father's income under Fam. Code, ¿ 4058, subd. (a), for purposes of calculating child support, even though they were included in his federal income tax, because the fees were not part of the father's regular income or cash flow.

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People v. Neuman, E044869, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION TWO, August 7, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Trial court did not err in denying a Wheeler/Batson challenge based on exclusion of jurors from different ethnic groups, finding no prima facie case of discrimination because people of color, as such, did not constitute a cognizable group; moreover, the defense did not develop the record sufficiently to show other facts supportive of the challenge.

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Sanchez v. County of San Bernardino, E045200, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION TWO, August 7, 2009, Filed
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Overview: High-level county employee had a cause of action for breach of a confidentiality provision in a severance agreement because, while the county might have had a duty to disclose the agreement itself, it had no such duty to disclose the underlying circumstances. Any First Amendment right to make disclosures was waived by the confidentiality provision.

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