On Wednesday, the Second Appellate District, Division One (Los Angeles) will hold a special oral argument outreach session for high school students.

The court issued 58 opinions, slightly up from the previous term’s 55. 26 of the 58 opinions were in criminal cases, including 5 death penalty appeals; the other 32 were in civil cases.

The next generation of attorneys and judges were invited to the Fifth District Court of Appeal in Downtown Fresno Wednesday morning to watch a special oral argument hearing from the Supreme Court of California.

If a trial judge confirms the lack of focus by a prospective juror, inattention remains a sufficient reason for the exercise of a peremptory challenge regardless of whether the prosecutor explains why the distracted demeanor matters to the resolution of the case, despite legislation providing that it is presumptively invalid as a proxy for discriminatory intent without such an explanation, Div. Six of this district’s Court of Appeal held yesterday.