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After a jury trial, Cunningham was convicted of continuous sexual abuse of a child in Contra Costa County Superior Court, California.Under California's Determinate Sentencing Law (DSL), the authorized sentences for this crime are either 6, 12, or 16 years.
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 ...
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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Since Martin’s death, his mother, Sybrina Fulton, has called for the repeal of "stand your ground" laws across the country. At least 28 states have some form of the law, according to the ...
The superior court either holds oral argument or publishes a tentative ruling followed by hearing oral argument, and then files an order granting or denying the petition. Further appellate relief is pursued on direct appeal before the relevant Court of Appeal (rather than by another writ petition).
Another quirk is that because the superior courts are now fully unified with all courts of inferior jurisdiction, the superior courts must hear relatively minor cases that previously would have been heard in such inferior courts, such as infractions, misdemeanors, "limited civil" actions (actions where the amount in controversy is below $35,000), and "small claims" actions.
The Georgia Court of Appeals has set a tentative date of October 4 to hear oral arguments in the effort to have Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis removed from prosecuting the election ...