Second District affirms convictions for the murder of a Pomona police officer and a separate assault, holding that hot pursuit and concern for family members justified the warrantless entry, but remands to correct determinate-term sentencing under Penal Code section 1170.1.
Second District holds that a recorded golf cart easement was not abandoned when the country club rerouted the path and that the easement was prescriptively expanded to include hedge and landscaping maintenance.
Second District affirms a comprehensive adjudication of the Las Posas Valley Groundwater Basin, upholding the trial court’s physical solution allocating water to overlying landowners and appointing Fox Canyon as watermaster.
Second District affirms denial of mental health diversion under Penal Code section 1001.36, with a notable concurrence sharply criticizing a recent Fourth District decision that overturned a similar denial.
Second District grants writ vacating mental health diversion in a violent hate-crime case, holding that the trial court must consider evidence of past treatment noncompliance when applying the public safety prong of Penal Code section 1001.36.
Second District affirms a $51 million asbestos-talc verdict against Avon Products and holds that Avon’s appellate brief forfeited its sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge by failing to fairly summarize the trial evidence.