In re Hong Yen Chang
Citations
- 84 Cal. 163
- 24 P. 156
- 1890 Cal. LEXIS 779
Syllabus
<p>Admission of Attorneys — Citizenship — Naturalization—Mongolian Nativity—Void Judgment—■ License of Another State. —A person of Mongolian nativity is not entitled to naturalization under the laws of the United States, and a certificate showing the naturalization of such person hy the judgment of any court is void, and cannot entitle him to admission to practice as an attorney in this state; nor will his license to practice in all the courts of the state of New York, issued by the supreme court of that state, avail such applicant, since only those who are citizens of the United States, or who, being eligible to become citizens, have declared their intention to become such, are entitled to be admitted in the supreme court of this state on presentation of license to practice in the highest court of a sister state.</p>
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- explaining that participation in a crime may be inferred from association prior to, during, and after the crime
- explaining that participation in a crime may be inferred from 5 association prior to, during, and after the crime
- A defendant’s “assertion that his trial counsel failed to act as an advocate on several occasions does not meet this stringent standard.” (punctuation omitted)
- even if defendant was not the shooter, conduct before, during, and after the shooting supported convictions as a party to the crimes
- Cronic established a narrow exception to the general Strickland standard, which exception applies only when counsel’s failure to subject the State’s case to adversarial testing is complete and occurs throughout the proceeding, not merely at specific points
- Cronic established a narrow exception to the general Strickland standard, which exception applies only when counsel's failure to subject the State's case to adversarial testing is complete and occurs throughout the proceeding, not merely at specific points
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Judges: Fox
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