Div. Six of this district’s Court of Appeal held Friday that a judgment of conviction became nonfinal when a defendant, who was a minor at the time he committed a murder but was sentenced as an adult, had his sentence conditionally upset on a writ of habeas corpus, rendering him eligible for the benefit of ameliorative laws enacted after imposition of his sentence and after his case had been deemed final.

Sacramento native Dena M. Coggins was confirmed May 22 by the U.S. Senate as a U.S. district judge for the Eastern District of California, the federal court that covers Sacramento. Coggins will be the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge in the California Eastern District and one of the few Black federal judges in the country.

(Subscription required) Wrapping up a four-day visit to Los Angeles and San Francisco to meet with state officials and tech leaders, a European Union commissioner spoke to reporters on Friday about the governing body's recent efforts to regulate artificial intelligence before the upcoming European Parliament elections.

(Subscription required) The California State Bar’s top priority for next year is a sizable fee increase to heal a structural deficit that “can no longer be avoided,” bar leadership wrote in the preface to its 2023 annual report.