SOAR Academy YTC was the only school in the county to be recognized and was the first court school ever to submit an application. The awards program, now in its 12th year, is co-sponsored by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond and California Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero. In total, 34 California schools received a Civic Learning Award.

Appellant Gregory Wilson contended that the description of him by a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney in closing argument was violative of the Racial Justice Act (“RJA”) which bars the use at trial of “racially discriminatory language” about the accused. That argument  was forfeited because no objection to references to the defendant as a “gorilla pimp” were voiced by his trial lawyer, Justice Kenneth Yegan said in the majority opinion, in which Justice Arthur Gilbert joined.

The Fifth District Court of Appeal held yesterday that a defendant accused of trafficking minors for sex, among other charges, was entitled to withdraw his plea of no contest for ineffective assistance of counsel due to his lawyer wrongly advising him that he would be eligible to be released from prison after serving only half of his 24-year sentence.

(Subscription required) California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Attorney General Rob Bonta have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its "illegal takeover" of the California National Guard to quash protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles.