6DCA Oral Argument - 2025/10/09 Morning Session - Oct 09, 2025
argument6DCA Oral Argument - 2025/10/09 Morning Session
California Sixth District Court of Appeal
1h 23m
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What are the opening procedures and case introductions for the morning session?
Eric, if I can have you turn your camera and microphone on. Yeah. We should be getting started shortly.
Thank you.
All right, the Flood Appeal for the 6th of Club District is not a session 3 Society Justice, the Honorable Allison M. Danner, Associate Justice, the Honorable M. Wilson, and Associate Justice, the Honorable Honorable H. Bummer. Good morning, please be seated.
All right, good morning again. Welcome to the sixth district court of appeal for oral argument. We have a number of cases on calendar this morning. and a few panel at least one panel change. I'll call the cases individually, ask for appearances and time estimate, and for counsel I do keep track of the time on my computer and I will let you know when you have a minute left in your time estimate. So beginning with the first case on calendar, H zero five one three two eight, the people, plaintiff and respondent versus John Samuel Thomas Trevino, defendant and appellate, uh appearance for appellate please first.
Good morning, Your Honor. Sengita Sinha for John Trevina.
Good morning, and what is your time estimate?
I have fifteen minutes and I previously requested three minutes for rebuttal.
All right. So I will twelve and three? Yes. Okay. And for the people, please?
Emily Derrick, correspondent.
Good morning. And ta and fifteen minutes?
Yes.
Thank you. All right, Miss Sinha, please come up and uh you have twelve minutes.
Thank you, Your Honors. May it please the court and counsel. Appellant John Trevino raised three issues on appeal. With the court's permission, I would like to turn to the third issue first. And that is whether the trial court erred by failing to sue a sponte. instruct the jury on principles of aiding and abetting or accomplice liability.
Council, could I could I actually ask that you start with a different issue? Certainly first. Um I'm actually most interested uh right now in the N IAC claim. Uh my understanding is that right before jury selection, the prosecutor in the case requested an amendment uh to the information to add the conspiracy to commit murder. Um Obviously you've claimed that the council's failure to object was deficient and Uh Your client was prejudiced by it. I don't have as much of an issue with the deficient performance as I do with trying to understand more clearly your arguments related to prejudice. So if you can spend some time in that space, I'd appreciate it.
Yes, your Honor. Mr. Trevino was prejudiced by council's failure to object. Because he ended up being tried on what is ultimately a life charge and convicted of a life charge. When he should not have been tried for that at all. And because he was sentenced to twenty-five years to life on count to the conspiracy charge. That's prejudice. He suffered a conviction as well as a lengthy, indeterminate state prison sentence.
Let's say he objects. What is the likelihood of a better outcome for your client? Um if he had objected at the time. And that's what I'm trying to to get at I understand the respondent is likely to argue that Uh any even if he had objected, um there was a basis b through the preliminary hearing. Um and I just want to get your uh argument in that Uh to that counter what I expect to come up a little bit later.
Yes, Your Honor, thank you for that clarification. The reason he was prejudiced is because an objection was well taken in this case. The people failed to prove. The conspiracy at preliminary hearing absent Mr. Trevino's own statement. And if
it's a So can I ask you about that? Uh why why wouldn't the statements um made to uh Mr the John Doe, um, the informant, um by or I guess we'll just call him John Doe, by Silva and Perez. So they made statements to him as to their involvement in the uh murder. And why was that not sufficient independent proof?
Because bare statements that a person is involved, even if it's multiple people, in this case Silva and Perez, as your honor noted, or that they committed the crime is insufficient evidence of an agreement to commit the crime. It is perhaps evidence of aiding and abetting. But
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the opening procedures and case introductions for the morning session?
1:54–13:28
2
How does counsel argue the prejudice and conspiracy issues in the Trevino case?
13:28–22:52
3
Why does the court consider sua sponte jury instructions on aiding and abetting?
22:52–32:32
4
What jurisdictional questions are raised regarding the September 24 order?
32:32–44:11
5
How does the appeal address the Family Code §271 order and alleged due‑process violations?
44:11–53:50
6
What arguments are presented in the DMV license‑suspension case?
53:50–1:04:26
7
How does the panel handle procedural delays and the panel change?
1:04:26–1:13:17
8
What are the final conclusions and next steps after the oral arguments?
1:13:17–1:23:18
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