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2. Los Angeles County Superior Court - Wikipedia

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   The Superior Court of Los Angeles County is the California Superior Court located in Los Angeles County. It is the largest single unified trial court in the United States. The Superior Court operates 36 courthouses throughout the county. Currently, the Presiding Judge is Samantha P. Jessner and David W. Slayton is the Executive Officer/Clerk of ...

3. California superior courts - Wikipedia

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   Many of California's larger superior courts have specialized divisions for different types of cases like criminal, civil, traffic, small claims, probate, family, juvenile, and complex litigation, but these divisions are simply administrative assignments that can be rearranged at the discretion of each superior court's presiding judge in ...

4. Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center - Wikipedia

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   Originally known as the Criminal Courts Building, [4] in 2002 it was renamed the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, after Clara S. Foltz, the first female lawyer on the West Coast of the United States (and also the first person to propose the creation of a public defender's office).

5. Los Angeles County Public Defender - Wikipedia

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   The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors appointed the first Public Defender in the United States, Walton J. Wood. [1] The original staff consisted of Wood, four deputies and a secretary. [4] In June 1915, the Los Angeles City Council created the City Police Court Defender and appointed James H. Pope to handle the defense in misdemeanor ...

6. Criminal procedure in California - Wikipedia

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   With a population of about 40 million people, in California every year there are approximately: 166 thousand violent crimes and one million property crimes committed [1] 1.5 million arrests made [2] 270,000 felony cases, 900,000 misdemeanor cases, and 5 million infraction cases heard [3] by the California superior courts

7. Searches incident to a lawful arrest - Wikipedia

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   Search incident to a lawful arrest, commonly known as search incident to arrest (SITA) or the Chimel rule (from Chimel v.California), is a U.S. legal principle that allows police to perform a warrantless search of an arrested person, and the area within the arrestee’s immediate control, in the interest of officer safety, the prevention of escape, and the preservation of evidence.