(Subscription required) The only way to keep the pace, he said, is through structure and discipline. Just as a swimmer relies on stroke and breath to cover distance, Moreton relies on rules and preparation to move cases through without sacrificing fairness.

The California Legislature on Thursday passed a pair of bills to prohibit on-duty law enforcement officers, including federal immigration agents, from masking their faces and to require them to identify themselves.

A man convicted of murder and attempted murder has failed in his effort to persuade Div. Eight of the Court of Appeal for this district that he was denied the effective assistance of counsel at trial because the lawyer did not object to the admission into evidence of a confession by the actual shooter.

Unsworn out-of-court allegations by a man’s teenage step-children were properly admitted at a probation-revocation/resentencing hearing, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded yesterday, rebuffing the contention that the right to confront witnesses was wrongfully denied.