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The Court of Sessions was largely a provisional device for governing California counties prior to the first election of boards of supervisors. Thus its powers extended beyond the purely judicial, and included executive and legislative functions.
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Judge John H. Watson served as the first judge of the court of sessions (1850–51); after his resignation, he was succeeded by C.P. Hester (1851–59), [4]: 21 Samuel Bell McKee, and David Belden. After the new California constitution of 1879 established the superior court system, J.H. Logan was the first judge, succeeded by F.J. McCann, Logan ...
[2]: 132 The justices of the Court of Sessions were Jesus Luna, Mariano G. Lascano, and Luis Raggio in January 1851, when they were required to post a US$1,000 bond. [2]: 133 In addition to the Court of Sessions, the Second Judicial District consisted of the counties of San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara. The first judge of the Second District ...
Courts of California include: Headquarters of the Supreme Court of California, in San Francisco. State courts of record of California. Supreme Court of California [1] California Courts of Appeal (6 appellate districts) [2] Superior Courts of California (58 courts, one for each county) [3] State quasi-administrative courts of California
Starting in the 1970s, California began to slowly phase out the use of justice courts (in which non-lawyers were authorized by statute to preside as judges) after a landmark 1974 decision in which the Supreme Court of California unanimously held that it was a violation of due process to allow a non-lawyer to preside over a criminal trial which ...
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Special elections to the California State Senate are called by the Governor of California when a vacancy arises within the State Senate. Most special elections are conducted in two rounds. The first is an open primary and the candidate with the most votes must have a majority of the votes plus one to win the seat. If no candidate wins a ...