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Appeals from decisions of the Circuit Courts are made to the Kentucky Court of Appeals, the state intermediate appellate court, which may be further appealed to the Kentucky Supreme Court. (Criminal cases in which a defendant has been sentenced to death, life imprisonment, or imprisonment of 20 years or more are taken directly to the Kentucky ...
Padilla v. Commonwealth of Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356 (2010), is a case in which the United States Supreme Court decided that criminal defense attorneys must advise noncitizen clients about the deportation risks of a guilty plea.
The District Courts are trial courts of limited jurisdiction that hear misdemeanor criminal cases, traffic violations, violations of county and municipal ordinances and small claims. [1]
The Kentucky Court of Appeals judges are elected from districts that mirror the seven districts which elect the seven justices of the Supreme Court of Kentucky. The 14 judges select one colleague to serve as chief judge for a four-year term. The chief judge assigns judges and cases to panels. The current chief judge is Larry E. Thompson. [1]
The United States District Court for the District of Kentucky was one of the original 13 courts established by the Judiciary Act of 1789, 1 Stat. 73, on September 24, 1789. [1] [2] At the time, Kentucky was not yet a state, but was within the territory of the state of Virginia. The District was unchanged when Kentucky became a state on June 1 ...
A Kentucky woman who wants an abortion filed a lawsuit Tuesday to strike down the state’s near-total ban. The lawsuit alleges the woman, referred to as Mary Poe, is about seven weeks pregnant ...
San Diego: 1958 2003–present 2021–2025 — G.W. Bush: 62 District Judge Janis Lynn Sammartino: San Diego: 1950 2007–present — — G.W. Bush: 65 District Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo: San Diego: 1958 2012–present — — Obama: 68 District Judge Todd W. Robinson: San Diego: 1967 2020–present — — Trump: 69 District Judge Linda Lopez ...
In common law jurisdictions, probate is the judicial process whereby a will is "proved" in a court of law and accepted as a valid public document that is the true last testament of the deceased; or whereby, in the absence of a legal will, the estate is settled according to the laws of intestacy that apply in the jurisdiction where the deceased resided at the time of their death.