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Greene, "Thus the term 'Brady violation' is sometimes used to refer to any breach of the broad obligation to disclose exculpatory evidence – that is, to any suppression of so-called 'Brady material' – although strictly speaking, there is never a real 'Brady violation' unless the nondisclosure was so serious that there is a reasonable ...
Note that under California Evidence Code ("CEC") §§769, 770, and 1235, prior inconsistent statements may be used for both impeachment and as substantive evidence, even if they were not originally made under oath at a formal proceeding, as long as "the witness was so examined while testifying as to give him an opportunity to explain or to deny ...
The California Supreme Court, aware of the recent trend toward comparative rather than contributory negligence, took the opportunity to reconsider the state's tort law on the subject. The only unique feature of the case was its reasoning on Section 1714 of the Civil Code , which had been thought to codify the "all-or-nothing" approach to ...
The lawsuit, which also names California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Attorney General Rob Bonta, is one of several filed by Huntington Beach against Sacramento in recent years in an effort to ...
The term is also used in some jurisdictions as a means to determine whether a jury award is out of line with the underlying civil wrong; a jury award can be overturned on appeal if, by its amount relative to the underlying civil wrong, it "shocks the conscience".
A former California prison guard being retried in a “Code of Silence” cover up in an attack on an inmate who later died was found guilty Wednesday. Brenda Villa, 32, a former sergeant at ...
Rochin v. California, 342 U.S. 165 (1952), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States that added behavior that "shocks the conscience" into tests of what violates due process clause of the 14th Amendment. [1]
California prosecutors will no longer be able to use musical artists' lyrics in criminal trials against them unless they meet specific parameters. It's a change with huge implications for racial ...