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Sonoma County was one of the original counties formed in 1850 after California became a state. The county seat was originally in the city of Sonoma; the first transaction regarding a courthouse building in the Court of Sessions was on March 18, 1850, to settle the rent for the building, owned by Judge H. A. Green.
Michael M. v. Superior Court of Sonoma County, 450 U.S. 464 (1981), was a United States Supreme Court case over the issue of gender bias in statutory rape laws. The petitioner argued that the statutory rape law discriminated based on gender and was unconstitutional.
Lawsuit against Sonoma County and Gelhaus settled for $3 million The fatal killing of Andy Lopez by Sonoma County sheriff's deputy Erick Gelhaus took place on October 22, 2013, in Santa Rosa, California . 13-year-old Lopez was walking through a vacant lot and carrying an airsoft gun that was designed to resemble an AK-47 assault rifle .
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.
Salcido's trial had been moved out of Sonoma County due to extensive news coverage of the case. On October 30, 1990, Salcido was found guilty by a jury of six counts of first-degree murder, one count of second-degree murder, and two counts of attempted murder.
New details are emerging about the case against Luigi Mangione, the man indicted on murder charges in the deadly shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City. The 26-year-old ...
The search for a suspect in a Sonoma County homicide ended Tuesday in Elk Grove with the arrest of a Sacramento man accused of shooting another man in the chest Monday night when an argument ...
Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57 (2000), is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States, citing a constitutional right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children, struck down a Washington law that allowed any third party to petition state courts for child visitation rights over parental objections.