At last Wednesday’s conference, the Supreme Court’s actions of note included:
- Digging into its backlog, and using a deferential standard of review, the court approved four more gubernatorial clemency recommendation requests: for Timothy Thompson to commute a 30-years-to-life sentence for robbery, Belinda Anderson and Larry Martinez to commute their life-without-parole murder sentences, and Melissa Jean Olsgard to pardon her conviction for fraud to obtain aid and possession of a controlled substance for sale.
- The court denied review in People v. Roberson, but Justice Goodwin Liu recorded a vote to grant. In an unpublished opinion in the case, the Second District, Division Six, affirmed an order denying resentencing under Prop. 36, the Three Strikes Reform Act of 2012.
- The court made grant-and-hold orders in four criminal cases and shed a whopping 60 Proposition 47 cases (see here) that had been grant-and-holds.
- The court made grant-and-transfer orders in five criminal cases.
