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4 days ago · A pending case before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal, USA v. Mark Ridley-Thomas, seeks a dismissal on similar grounds. Dr. Ridley-Thomas’ legal team maintains that during his 2023 trial’s jury selection, the government used two of its peremptory challenges to purposefully exclude the only two Black women from the jury.
May 25, 2024 · Seven years ago, California’s Supreme Court declared broad support for the historic right of voters to make law through the initiative process. Ruling in a case dubbed “Upland,” the court said that while governments are subject to voter-approved constitutional restraints on raising taxes, tax ...
May 8, 2024 · The Mark Ridley-Thomas case demonstrates that reforms in federal jury selection processes are necessary. In Batson v. Kentucky, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that a prosecutor’s use of a peremptory challenge in a criminal case to dismiss jurors without stating a valid reason for doing so may not be used to exclude jurors based solely on a ...
4 days ago · IN THE SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA EMILY WHEELER, Petitioner, v. APPELLATE DIVISION OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; THE PEOPLE, Real Party in Interest. S272850 Second Appellate District, Division Three B310024 Los Angeles County Superior Court 9CJ00315, BR054851 May 30, 2024
May 8, 2024 · Two of his former colleagues — Jose Huizar and Mark Ridley-Thomas — were suspended from the council after facing felony charges. Price publicly argued that he should not be suspended,...
May 6, 2024 · The California Supreme Court in December held court for the first time in Los Angeles since before the pandemic, in the North Tower of the Ronald Reagan State Office Building.
May 6, 2024 · In defending their removal of the only two Black women in the jury pool in Mark Ridley-Thomas’s case currently before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. Attorney’s office asserted that the jury had African American members and non-Black female members.
