Hurst v. Florida
577 U.S. 92 (2016) Cited 960 times 5 Legal AnalysesHolding Florida's former death penalty sentencing scheme unconstitutional because "[t]he Sixth Amendment requires a jury, not a judge, to find each fact necessary to impose a sentence of death"
People v. Sanchez
63 Cal.4th 665 (Cal. 2016) Cited 1,446 timesHolding that case-specific out-of-court statements offered by an expert and not otherwise admissible are necessarily offered for their truth, in violation of the Confrontation Clause
People v. Brooks
2 Cal.5th 674 (Cal. 2017) Cited 708 timesConcluding any error in excluding evidence of the victim's prior felony conviction was harmless under Watson "because there is no reasonable probability that a more favorable result would have occurred had the prior conviction evidence been admitted"