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Raju worked for seven years as a public defender in Contra Costa County before joining the San Francisco Public Defender's office in 2008. [6] [7] Raju was a founding member of Public Defenders for Racial Justice. [8] As manager of the office's felony unit, Raju criticized the lack of representation in jury pools, noting in 2017 that:
California law does not require people summoned for jury duty to report to the courthouse more than one per year unless they are selected for a trial. So if you report to the courthouse, you won ...
Whether an employer chooses to pay their employee during jury duty or not, California law does state that employers cannot fire an employee who is summoned to serve as a juror and cannot work.
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 ...
Deputy public defender Rebecca Brackman of the Contra Costa Public Defenders Association, was quoted by San Francisco Chronicle as stating that the outcome is an “overwhelming rebuke of Judge Laettner’s actions” and that “This sends a clear signal that judges need to uphold our community values of fairness, equity, and basic dignity and ...
The Contra Costa County Superior Court had previously denied the petitioner’s claim because he had provided only “conclusory statements regarding the presence or absence of physical evidence involved in the case” which do not “create an inference that someone involved in investigating or trying his case were motivated by racial animus ...
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San Diego Police officers confer with FEMA Administrator David Paulison during the October 2007 California wildfires.. According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, 509 law enforcement agencies exist in the U.S. state of California, employing 79,431 sworn police officers—about 217 for each 100,000 residents.