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Exceptions may be made to the "truth in evidence" rule by a two-thirds vote of both houses of the California Legislature. Section 28 provided that public safety should be the primary consideration in determining whether to grant bail. The Victims' Bill of Rights proposed to repeal Article 1, Section 12, which contained the existing ...
Giles v. California, 554 U.S. 353 (2008), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States that held that for testimonial statements to be admissible under the forfeiture exception to hearsay, the defendant must have intended to make the witness unavailable for trial.
Marsy's Law, the California Victims' Bill of Rights Act of 2008, enacted by voters as Proposition 9 through the initiative process in the November 2008 general election, is an amendment to the state's constitution and certain penal code sections.
California’s penal code describes domestic violence as a “corporal injury resulting in a traumatic condition” inflicted on the parent of the offender’s child or a current or former spouse ...
The ruling requires judges to assess community safety and a defendant's ability to pay bail when determining bail amounts. California Supreme Court rules it's unconstitutional to detain people in ...
After the killings of children involved in custody battles, state Sen. Susan Rubio is pushing for a bill that would require judges receive domestic violence training.
She reported that out-of-state crime rings use children, as they are even less likely to be prosecuted, and that even when police make arrests, charges are dropped or downgraded by the district attorney. [36] According to the Public Policy Institute of California, [37] violent crime in California rose by 5.7% between 2021 and 2022.
State (1877), the Indiana court rejected a duty to retreat, saying, [1]: 551–2 [5] "the tendency of the American mind seems to be very strongly against" a duty to retreat. [5] The court went further in saying that no statutory law could require a duty to retreat, because the right to stand one's ground is "founded on the law of nature ; and ...