PEOPLE v. BIANE

No. S207250.

58 Cal.4th 381 (2013)

165 Cal. Rptr. 3d 842

315 P.3d 106

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. PAUL ANTOINE BIANE et al., Defendants and Respondents. MARK KIRK, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, Respondent; THE PEOPLE, Real Party in Interest. JAMES ERWIN, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, Respondent; THE PEOPLE, Real Party in Interest. JEFFREY BURUM, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, Respondent; THE PEOPLE, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

December 23, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kamala D. Harris , Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Julie L. Garland , Assistant Attorney General, James D. Dutton , Steven T. Oetting and Melissa Mandel , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Appellant and for Real Party in Interest.

Law Office of Grech & Firetag, Paul Grech, Jr. , and Chad W. Firetag for Petitioner Mark Kirk.

The Law Offices of Rajan R. Maline, Rajan R. Maline ; Law Office of Harmon & Harmon and Steven L. Harmon for Petitioner James Erwin.

Arent Fox, Stephen G. Larson , Mary Carter Andrues and Jonathan E. Phillips for Petitioner Jeffrey Burum

David M. Goldstein for Defendants and Respondents.

No appearance for Respondent Superior Court.


OPINION

BAXTER, J.

An indictment charged defendants Jeffrey Burum and James Erwin with aiding and abetting the receipt of bribes by members of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors and with conspiring with those supervisors and others to have them accept bribes in exchange for the supervisors' approval of a $102 million payment to settle litigation between Burum's company and the county. The People intended to prove that Burum...

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