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Rule 2.1008 in the 2024 California Rules of Court says prospective jurors with physical or mental disabilities that don’t affect their competence but could cause them harm can be excused from ...
Been assigned to the trial department for jury selection and participated until excused by the jury commissioner. Attended court but was not assigned to the trial department before the end of that ...
Talarico said jury duty is an important constitutional right and that a small number of people are ever called to serve. He said a majority of people are excused for a cause or excused because ...
The last county to achieve trial court unification was Kern County, where the state's last four municipal court judges were sworn in by Chief Justice Ronald M. George as superior court judges on February 8, 2001. [26] Therefore, at present, the superior courts are actually not "superior" to any inferior courts within the judicial branch.
Samuel Conti was a Superior court judge in the Contra Costa County from 1968 to 1970, when he was appointed to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. [ 6 ] On November 11, 2003, just days before he left office after an unprecedented recall vote, California Governor Gray Davis appointed Barry Goode to serve on ...
Kern County was partitioned from Tulare, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino counties in 1866, [3] following a failed effort to establish Buena Vista County which started in 1855. [4] The initial county seat was set in Havilah, and the governor appointed Theron Reed as the county judge. At their first two meetings, held August 1–2, 1866, the ...
On July 25, 2021, Kern County Sheriff's Office Deputy Phillip Campas was killed in the line of duty. Campas was struck by gunfire while entering a residence with a SWAT team formation in an attempt to suppress an active-shooter that had executed family members and was holding additional family hostage.
A Kern County jury on Friday reached a partial verdict in the trial of Jonathan Knight, charged with murder in the death of 5-year-old Kason Guyton.