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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.
The paradox of state judicial officers working in county-operated organizations culminated in a 1996 case in which the Supreme Court of California upheld the constitutionality of a statute under which the superior court of Mendocino County was bound by the county board of supervisors' designation of unpaid furlough days for all county employees ...
In June, 1998, California passed Proposition 220, which allowed the judges in each county to determine if the county should have only one trial court. By 2001, all 58 counties had consolidated their courts into a single superior court. The California courts of appeal were added to the judicial branch by a constitutional amendment in 1904.
The well-known used bookstore has been in the process of moving since early April and was readying for its soft opening Saturday morning. One of Sacramento’s oldest bookstores is reopening in a ...
Stephen W. "Steve" White [1] (born April 13, 1949 in Sacramento, California) [1] is a Judge of the Sacramento County Superior Court. [2] He served as Presiding Judge for 2010 and 2011. He was appointed to the bench in 2003 by Governor Gray Davis. [3]
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 ...
He worked as a law clerk for Judge William B. Shubb at the U.S. District Court Eastern District of California from 2002 to 2003. Superior court judges serve six-year terms and are elected by ...
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 ...