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Britney Spears’ court-appointed attorney, Samuel Ingham III, will resign from the pop star’s conservatorship case. Ingham filed paperwork on Tuesday, asking the Los Angeles Superior Court to ...
A Marsden motion is the only means by which a criminal defendant can fire a court-appointed attorney or communicate directly with a judge in a California state court. [1] It is based on a defendant's claim that the attorney is providing ineffective assistance or has a conflict with the defendant.
In their 2010 campaigns, California attorney general Jerry Brown and Harris both pledged to not defend Prop 8. [52] After being elected, Harris declared her office would not defend the marriage ban, leaving the task to Prop 8's proponents. [53]
Hong Yen Chang (1888): [6] First Chinese American male lawyer in the U.S., but was denied the right to practice law in California [7] Washington J. Oglesby (1902): [8] [9] First African American male to pass the California State Bar exam in 1896, but was refused bar admittance until 1902; Theodore Grady (1897): [10] First deaf male lawyer in ...
Scott Kronland, the attorney for Service Employees International Union California who unsuccessfully argued before the state Supreme Court that it should throw out Prop. 22, told CalMatters: "I've ...
The district attorney's office filed charges in just 47% of the misdemeanor cases it was presented last year, down from 72% in 2020, then-Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey's final year in office.
After graduating from law school, Tigar served as a law clerk for Judge Robert Smith Vance of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit from 1989 to 1990. [2] [3] During Tigar's clerkship, Vance was killed by a mail bomb sent to his home. [4] From 1990 until 1992, Tigar served as a litigation associate for the law firm ...
Robert Andres Bonta (born September 22, 1972) is a Filipino-born American lawyer and politician serving as the attorney general of California since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a member of the California State Assembly for the 18th district from 2012 to 2021 and as a member of the Alameda City Council from 2010 to 2012.