California v. Scott
Annotate this CaseA decade after his conviction for attempted murder, defendant-appellant Derrick Scott filed an unsuccessful petition to set it aside under Penal Code section 1170.95. On appeal, his counsel filed a brief asserting no grounds for relief. Scott was invited to file a brief of his own but did not. Following the law that the Court of Appeal generally has applied to postjudgment appeals in the last decade, the Court dismissed the appeal as abandoned. "We believe that we typically should issue such a dismissal through a concise unpublished order, but we publish this opinion to explain why that practice is our preferred course for most uncontested postjudgment appeals."
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