California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Rouse, A140253 (Cal. App. 2017):
12. See People v. Villasenor (2015) 242 Cal.App.4th 42, 64, fn. 2 ("While 'we are not bound by the decisions of the lower federal courts even on federal questions[,] . . . they are persuasive and entitled to great weight' ").
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