The Superior Court of the District of Columbia,commonly referred to as DC Superior Court,is the trial court for the District of Columbia,in the United States. It hears cases involving criminal and civil law,as well as family court,landlord and tenant,probate,tax and driving violations. All appeals of Superior Court decisions go to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
The Superior Court of California,County of Sacramento,alternatively called the Sacramento County Superior Court,is the California Superior Court located in Sacramento with jurisdiction over Sacramento County.
Delbert Gee was an Alameda County Superior Court Judge from 2002 until his retirement in 2022,presiding over both civil and criminal cases. During the COVID-19 public health emergency,he presided over two civil jury trials conducted entirely by video.
The Superior Court of California for and in the County of Santa Clara is the state trial court in and for Santa Clara County,California.
Lawrence Fobes King,also known as Latisha King was a 15-year-old student at E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard,California,who was shot twice by a fellow student,14-year-old Brandon McInerney,and kept on life support for two days afterwards.
The Circuit Court of Cook County is the largest of the 24 circuit courts in the judiciary of Illinois as well as one of the largest unified court systems in the United States –second only in size to the Superior Court of Los Angeles County since that court merged with other courts in 1998.
Jeremy Don Fogel is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Fogel was appointed by President Bill Clinton. He was a judge for the municipal court and superior court of Santa Clara County,California from 1981 to 1998. He served as Director of the Federal Judicial Center from 2011 to 2018.
Ronald McLeod Whyte was United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose,California.
The Superior Court of Los Angeles County is the California Superior Court located in Los Angeles County. It is the largest single unified trial court in the United States.
Edward John Davila is an American lawyer who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. He was previously a state court judge on the Santa Clara County Superior Court from 2001 to 2011.
The Jordan Brown case involves Jordan Brown,who was initially charged at 11 as an adult in the fatal shooting of his father's fiancée,Kenzie Marie Houk,26,in New Beaver,Pennsylvania,which occurred on the morning of February 20,2009. Jordan was interviewed by Pennsylvania State Police twice that day and arrested before sunrise the next morning. The Lawrence County District Attorney's Office initially filed the charges in adult court because that is required in Pennsylvania homicide cases,regardless of a defendant's age. The Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office then took over prosecution of the case. After Brown had spent more than three years in a juvenile detention facility in Erie,Pennsylvania,while Pennsylvania courts deliberated his status,Brown was tried as a juvenile and found guilty of being delinquent by a judge on April 13,2012.
Eugene Milton Premo was a justice of the California Courts of Appeal,Sixth District. He graduated from Santa Clara University in 1957. In 1962,Justice Premo graduated with a LL.B. Degree from Santa Clara University School of Law. In 1988 he was appointed to a newly created position on the court of Appeal,Sixth District by Governor George Deukmejian. He has also served as president of the Municipal Court Judges Association.
LaDoris Hazzard Cordell is an American retired judge of the Superior Court of California,and a retired Independent Police Auditor for the city of San Jose,California.
Sharon Ann Chatman was an American college basketball coach,a lawyer,and a judge.
People v. Turner,formally The People of the State of California v. Brock Allen Turner (2015),was a criminal case in which Brock Allen Turner was convicted by jury trial of three counts of felony sexual assault.
Michael Aaron Persky is an American attorney and former judge of the Santa Clara County Superior Court from 2003 to 2018. He gained attention after his ruling in the case People v. Turner,in which he in June 2016 sentenced Stanford University student Brock Turner to 6 months in prison for the sexual assault and attempted rape of an unconscious 22-year-old woman,Chanel Miller,which was a sentence recommended by the Santa Clara County Probation Department. Despite allegations that race,gender,and class bias influenced his lenient sentencing of Turner,the California Commission on Judicial Performance found that there was not clear and convincing evidence of wrongdoing in their investigation of the case. Nonetheless,Persky was recalled by voters on June 5,2018,during the 2018 California primary elections.
Cindy Seeley Hendrickson is a judge of the Santa Clara County Superior Court.
