Tomorrow morning, the Supreme Court will file its opinion in People v. Ware. (Briefs here; oral argument video here.)
The opinion will leave one undecided case — People v. Ramirez — from the court’s September calendar. The opinion in that case should file on Monday.
When it granted review in Ware in December 2020, the court limited the issue to be decided: “Does sufficient evidence support Hoskins’s Count 1 conviction for conspiracy to commit murder?” Earlier, the court requested an answer to the petition for review, saying the answer should address, “Whether a defendant may be convicted of conspiracy to commit murder where it was undisputed that the conviction was based entirely on circumstantial evidence of a conspiracy and his only connection to the coconspirators is common gang affiliation and social media posts which fail to prove his involvement in the conspiracy.” The case is called Ware, but the court denied Ware’s petition for review and that of one co-defendant, granting only co-defendant Hoskins’s petition.
The opinion can be viewed tomorrow starting at 10:00 a.m.