Biggest Court in Nation Cuts Operations – Los Angeles County Courts

LOS ANGELES (CN) – The nation’s biggest court announced Monday extraordinary staff cuts and courtroom closures as a result of both California’s budget crisis and long term policy by the top administrative brass for California’s courts. “These are extraordinary measures, never before seen in the Los Angeles Superior Court,” wrote Presiding Judge Lee Edmon in...
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Hundreds of DUI cases in San Francisco, CA could be tossed

Hundreds of drunken-driving convictions in San Francisco could be thrown out because of questions about how police handled the device that measures blood alcohol levels, prosecutors and the public defender’s office said Monday. The problem could affect as many as 1,000 convictions, said Public Defender Jeff Adachi, whose office is working with District Attorney George...
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