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The Superior Court uses the One Day or One Trial Jury Service program under California Rules of Court, Rule 2.1002. This program allows a person to fulfill jury service when they have: Served 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 ...
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 ...
The American jury draws its power of nullification from its right to render a general verdict in criminal trials, the inability of criminal courts to direct a verdict no matter how strong the evidence, the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause, which prohibits the appeal of an acquittal, [2] and the fact that jurors cannot be punished for ...
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.
Regardless of the court schedule, 1,690 people are called for jury duty each week in San Luis Obispo County, said Nikki Rodriguez, head of jury services at San Luis Obispo Superior Court.
Jury duty or jury service is a service as a juror in a legal proceeding. Different countries have different approaches to juries: [ 1 ] variations include the kinds of cases tried before a jury, how many jurors hear a trial, and whether the lay person is involved in a single trial or holds a paid job similar to a judge , but without legal ...
The Fresno-based family owns 52,000 acres from Kern to Fresno County. ... listed in the court documents as 52,000 acres from Kern to Fresno County. ... a Fresno County jury awarded $26 million to ...