The letter went on to say that any DOJ attorney licensed in California who is involved in “threatening or initiating” criminal prosecution against California officials for upholding the state’s law without probable cause would be violating their ethical obligations under California’s Rules of Professional Conduct and may have an ethics complaint filed against them with the California State Bar.

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The California Supreme Court yesterday upheld the death sentence of a man convicted of killing two young children, finding that he forfeited the argument that the trial court prejudicially erred by denying his change of venue request after his highly-publicized first trial was thrown out due to juror misconduct, drawing a concurrence by Justice Kelli Evans addressing the difficulties facing retrials in cases that draw media scrutiny.

A divided California Supreme Court held yesterday that the question of whether the Sexually Violent Predator Act violates equal protection principles by providing covered defendants with a right to a jury trial as to involuntary civil commitment decisions only if they demand it—unlike other competency statutory schemes that require a personal advisement and waiver—is only subject to rational basis review.