A week after hearing 16 arguments on its late-May calendar in San Francisco, the Supreme Court will travel to Los Angeles to hear 3 more. All three are criminal cases, including two automatic death penalty appeals. The 19 late-May/June arguments are two more than during the same time period last year. The court will then have an argument-free July and August.
On June 2, in Los Angeles, the court will hear the following cases (with the issue presented as stated on the court’s website):
People v. Prunty: Is evidence of a collaborative or organizational nexus required before multiple subsets of the Norteños can be treated as a whole for the purpose of determining whether a group constitutes a criminal street gang within the meaning of Penal Code section 186.22, subdivision (f)?
People v. Williams: This is an automatic appeal from an August 1998 judgment of death. The court’s website does not list issues for such appeals.
People v. Romero and Self: This is an automatic appeal from August 1996 judgments of death. The court’s website does not list issues for such appeals.
