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In common law jurisdictions, a preliminary hearing, preliminary examination, preliminary inquiry, evidentiary hearing or probable cause hearing is a proceeding, after a criminal complaint has been filed by the prosecutor, to determine whether there is enough evidence to require a trial. At such a hearing, the defendant may be assisted by a lawyer.
In United States law, ripeness refers to the readiness of a case for litigation; "a claim is not ripe for adjudication if it rests upon contingent future events that may not occur as anticipated, or indeed may not occur at all."
Despite ongoing calls for further reform and trial court unification, California's trial court system remained quite complex for several more decades. In 1971, a legislative select committee found that the trial court system was fragmented into "58 superior courts, 75 municipal courts, and 244 justice courts, of which 74 percent were single ...
Defendants in California have the following statutory Speedy Trial rights. To have their trial begin within 60 days of their arraignment if charged with a felony [19] To have their trial begin within 30 days of their arraignment if charged with a misdemeanor and they are in custody of the police (i.e. in jail) [20]
Contested case hearing is the name for quasi-judicial administrative hearings governed by state law. [which?] State agencies that make decisions that could affect people's "rights, duties, and privileges" must have a process for holding contested case hearings. The purpose of these hearings is to provide the decision-makers with the most ...
Assistant State Attorney Janine Nixon represented the state at the post-trial hearing. In May, Lake was convicted of robbery with a firearm and principal to burglary of a conveyance while armed ...
California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation online records show Lyle Menendez remained a prisoner at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility Tuesday, along with his brother. The ...
The California Code of Civil Procedure (abbreviated to Code Civ. Proc. in the California Style Manual [a] or just CCP in treatises and other less formal contexts) is a California code enacted by the California State Legislature in March 1872 as the general codification of the law of civil procedure in the U.S. state of California, along with the three other original Codes.