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  2. Criminal procedure in California - Wikipedia

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    In California, criminal defendants have the right to appeal both felony [29] and misdemeanor [30] convictions. If the defendant is convicted of a misdemeanor, they have the right to be released on bail pending the outcome of their appeal. Misdemeanor appeals are heard by the Appellate Division of the California Superior Court.

  3. California criminal law - Wikipedia

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    Examples of infractions in California are traffic violations such as exceeding the posted speed limit, etc. Persons charged with infractions do not have the same right to trial by jury as misdemeanor defendants, notwithstanding laws that imply otherwise. [5] [6] [7] Similarly, Defendants generally do not have a right to court-appointed counsel. [8]

  4. Law of California - Wikipedia

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    Decisions from federal courts are also frequently cited as a source of persuasive authority about California law, even by the California Supreme Court. [12] Although California courts have no obligation to follow federal precedents about matters of state law, they generally follow federal decisions on issues of federal law, even though they are ...

  5. California Codes - Wikipedia

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    In 1941, the Puerto Rican Legislative Assembly joined the nationwide movement towards transferring civil procedure and evidentiary law into a system of rules promulgated by the courts, then abolished the judicial power to promulgate rules in 1946, then reinstated it in 1952 (subject to the right of the legislature to amend court rules before ...

  6. California Penal Code - Wikipedia

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    Volumes of the Thomson West annotated version of the California Penal Code; the other popular annotated version is Deering's, which is published by LexisNexis. The Penal Code of California forms the basis for the application of most criminal law, criminal procedure, penal institutions, and the execution of sentences, among other things, in the American state of California.

  7. Writ of mandate (California) - Wikipedia

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    The court applied similar reasoning to the writ of prohibition the next year. [34] To avoid the obvious implication that nearly all California government agency decisions were now entirely immune from judicial review, the court held in 1939 that the writ of mandate could be used instead for that purpose. [34]

  8. Murder in California law - Wikipedia

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    In California, the common law "year and a day" rule has been changed to a "three years and a day" rule. [5] If a death occurs more than three years and one day after the act alleged to have caused it (and the act was committed on or after 1 January 1997), there is "a rebuttable presumption that the killing was not criminal", but the prosecution ...

  9. California superior courts - Wikipedia

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    The superior courts are the lowest level of state courts in California holding general jurisdiction on civil and criminal matters. Above them are the six California courts of appeal, each with appellate jurisdiction over the superior courts within their districts, and the Supreme Court of California.