The Court of Appeal ordered that the abstract of judgment and sentencing minute order be corrected to conform with the oral pronouncement.
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A172549
- September 30, 2026
- Division: One
- Attorney: Jeffrey Glick
- Categories: Criminal, Sentencing
A72552
- September 29, 2026
- Division: Four
- Attorney: Meredith Fahn
- Categories: Criminal, Fines, Fees, and Victim Restitution
The Court of Appeal ordered that the abstract of judgment be corrected to reflect the stay of all fines.
A171648
- September 29, 2026
- Division: Four
- Attorney: Randy Baker
- Categories: Criminal, Sentencing
The Court of Appeal ordered that various errors (including a determinate term inaccurately listed as indeterminate) in the abstract of judgment and sentencing minute order be corrected.
A173483
- September 29, 2026
- Division: Two
- Attorney: Ellen Ivens-Duran
- Categories: Criminal, General
The Court of Appeal conditionally reversed appellant’s probation orders and remanded for a Marsden hearing. The government conceded that, even absent an indication that appellant “pressed for a hearing,” the failure to hold a hearing was reversible error.
A173323
- September 28, 2026
- Division: Four
- Attorney: Eric Larson
- Categories: Criminal, Sentencing
The Court of Appeal remanded for further resentencing proceedings because the trial court gave both proper and improper reasons for denying further relief. The court’s improper reason — that it could not revisit the jury’s verdict by considering postconviction evidence raising “a legitimate [Brady] question” — created a reasonable probability of a lesser sentence in absence of the error.
A173003
- September 23, 2026
- Division: Four
- Attorney: Geoffrey Jones
- Categories: Criminal, Sentencing
The Court of Appeal remanded for resentencing for the trial court to strike the enhancement for personal use of a firearm (PC 12022.7(g)) on the carjacking offense because no evidence was presented that a firearm was used during the commission of that offense, to strike the great bodily injury enhancement (PC 12022.7(g)) imposed on the murder offense, and to stay the sentence on carjacking or assault under PC 654.
A174710
- September 23, 2026
- Division: Two
- Attorney: Michael Casey
- Categories: Criminal, Sentencing
The Court of Appeal struck and modified the four-year probation term to reflect the agreed-upon three-year term. The record reflected that the imposition of the four-year term was an oversight as opposed to an exercise of discretion by the trial court.
A175511
- September 21, 2026
- Division: One
- Attorney: Jenie Chang
- Categories: Dependency, General, Relative Placement
Father appealed from disposition raising issues relating to removal, reasonable efforts, due diligence, and relative placement. The Court of Appeal reversed the due diligence findings and the failure to initiate an ICPC for paternal aunt. The Bureau did not exercise due diligence in identifying relatives, did not provide the required notice pursuant to WIC 309(e)(1) and Rule 5.534(b)(3), and failed to evaluate interested adult relatives for placement as required WIC 361.3.
A156253
- September 17, 2026
- Division: Four
- Attorney: Theresa Stevenson
- Categories: Criminal, Fines, Fees, and Victim Restitution, Sentencing
The Court of Appeal vacated appellant’s 16-month jail sentence (a probation condition) because the sentence was unauthorized under PC 19.2. In a published portion of the opinion, the court remanded with directions to consider appellant’s excessive fines argument under Kopp.
A174048
- September 11, 2026
- Division: One
- Attorney: L. Richard Braucher
- Categories: Delinquency
The Court of Appeal reversed the order granting the petition for access to appellant’s juvenile case file under WIC 827. The Court of Appeal held that the juvenile court abused its discretion because the petitioner’s bare bones request did not demonstrate good cause nor show the records were necessary and had substantial relevance to a legitimate need.