Law-Guy: Daily Case Summaries

 HARBISON v. BELL, WARDEN, U.S. Supreme Ct., April 1, 2009
Appointed federal counsel on the habeas in this Tennessee DP case wants to do State clemency proceedings after State court refuses to appoint state counsel on those proceedings. Federal court denies request to expand federal counsel role to clemency proceedings.  US Supremes say she should be appointed.

People v. Paredes (2008) , Cal.App.4th [No. E040123. Fourth Dist., Div. Two. Jan. 16, 2008
Co-defendant case involving multiple juries and third party snitch.  Defendants trying to collect drug debt by carjacking end up shooting victim.  Once identified and arrested, there are various paritial admissions and eventual invocations of Miranda.  After invoking, 2 co-defendants are placed [...]

People v. Hertzig (2007) , Cal.App.4th [No. C053674. Third Dist. Oct. 24, 2007
Defendant represents self in multi-count, multi-victim molest.  Court concludes that 10 additional counts of kiddie porn did not need to be severed, however, the Court concludes that they should have been a single count since they were all on one computer.  Court also [...]