Holding that an attorney may not waive a defendant's right to a speedy trial to accommodate the interests of other clients rather than benefit the defendant
44 Cal.App.4th 634 (Cal. Ct. App. 1996) Cited 463 times
In Roddenberry, the issue was whether a marital settlement agreement entitled the plaintiff to her former husband’s postdivorce profits on Star Trek. (Roddenberry, at p. 640.)
In Mansell, the city had never protested the use of the lands at issue over the course of almost seventy years, and thousands of residents would have been affected by the city's land use action.
In Zuckerman, an expert estimated the value of a property by using a comparative property that "include[d] various fixtures, rights, improvements, and personal property which the property being [valued did] not include."
48 Cal.App.4th 1152 (Cal. Ct. App. 1996) Cited 147 times
Finding City "violated state law by failing to provide a fair hearing . . . [but] did not offend the federal Constitution, on either procedural or substantive due process grounds"
108 Cal.App.4th 81 (Cal. Ct. App. 2003) Cited 91 times
Observing that combination of investigatory and adjudicatory functions is "fraught" with problems, especially where "these dual functions were not held by different sections of a single office, but by a single individual "
45 Cal.App.4th 652 (Cal. Ct. App. 1996) Cited 107 times
In Barber, the court similarly held that the exercise of independent judgment requires a trial court to "reweigh the evidence by examining the credibility of witnesses," while observing that the contrary rule "has been rejected by numerous cases decided in the post-Strumsky era."