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The Sacramento County Public Defender provides criminal defense services for those unable to afford private counsel. The current public defender is Amanda M. Benson. For cases where the public defender has a legal conflict or is otherwise unable to provide services, services are provided by a group of private attorneys compensated by the Court.
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.
Lloyd George Connelly, Jr. [1] (born December 31, 1945, in Sacramento, California) is a Sacramento County, California Superior Court Judge. Before his appointment as a judge, Connelly was a Democratic politician, serving as a member of the California State Assembly from 1982 until 1992.
Two new judges for Sacramento County were among 16 appointees named this week by Gov. Gavin Newsom to superior courts around the state. Philip Ferrari, 52, of Sacramento, and Satnam Rattu, 42, of ...
SCPLL was established on March 31, 1891, in the county courthouse with 6,237 volumes. [3] In 1965 the law library moved along with the court to the new Gordon D. Schaber Sacramento County Courthouse Sacramento Superior Court at 720 9th Street. The law library was located in the basement of the courthouse. [4]
Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Stephen Lau, an attorney for the Sacramento County Employees’ Retirement System, to serve as judge in Sacramento Superior Court. Lau, 47, of Placer County was among ...
Victoria Kolakowski was elected as a judge of the Alameda County Superior Court in 2010. ... of the 169 judges he has appointed since taking office in 2019, 49% were women and 56% were people of ...
The Sacramento County Superior Court, which covers the entire county, is not a County department but a division of the State's trial court system. Historically, the courthouses were county-owned buildings that were maintained at county expense, which created significant friction since the trial court judges, as officials of the state government ...