California Supreme Court
Jul. 20, 2021
‘Jurassic’ Wisdom
A five-justice majority of the California Supreme Court recently held that appellate courts owed no deference to a trial court’s finding that a person seeking to overturn his conviction was not credible when declaring that he would not have entered a plea had he properly understood the immigration consequences of doing so, because that finding was based on “written declarations and other documents” rather than live witnesses. Will there be a franchise?
In "Jurassic Park," the chaotician Ian Malcolm expressed shock and dismay upon learning that the park's geneticists had crossed a new boundary by resurrecting dinosaurs, decrying that they had been "so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
In People v. Vivar, 11 Cal. 5th 510 (2021), a five-justice majority of the California Supreme Court held that appellate ...
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