Laci Denise Peterson was an American woman murdered by her husband,Scott Lee Peterson,while eight months pregnant with their first child. Laci disappeared on December 24,2002,from the couple's home in Modesto,California,after which Scott reported her missing. The remains of her and her unborn son,whom the couple had planned to name Conner,were discovered in April 2003 on the shores of San Francisco Bay. Subsequently,Scott was arrested and charged with two counts of murder. In November 2004,he was found guilty of the first-degree murder of Laci and the second-degree murder of the infant.
The Judge Advocate General's Corps of the United States Army,also known as the U.S. Army JAG Corps,is the legal arm of the United States Army. It is composed of Army officers who are also lawyers and who provide legal services to the Army at all levels of command,and also includes legal administrator warrant officers,paralegal noncommissioned officers and junior enlisted personnel,and civilian employees.
John D. Altenburg Jr. is a lawyer for the U.S. Army and a retired major general. In December 2003,Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld named Altenburg as the appointing authority for military commissions covering detainees at Guantanamo. He resigned,effective November 10,2006.
Lawrence Joseph Mira is an American lawyer and jurist who is currently serving as a judge for the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Known by some as "Judge to the Stars",Mira's name has been mentioned in numerous high-profile and celebrity arrests due to the region his courtroom serves.
Martin Joseph Jenkins is an American attorney and jurist serving as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California. He was previously a justice of the California Court of Appeal for the First District,located in San Francisco,and a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Scott L. Rolle is a Circuit Court Judge in Frederick County,Maryland. In a close election in late 2014,he was the first lawyer to defeat a sitting judge in Frederick County by way of election in modern history. From 1995 to 2007 Rolle was the State's Attorney for Frederick County,Maryland. He served three consecutive terms in that position. He is also an actor who co-starred on the television series Brad Meltzer's Decoded that was aired on the History Channel with 23 episodes spanning two seasons. He also landed a role on Lifetime Discovery Channel's "Twisted Fate",the independent films "Substance","Money Matters" along with other film,television and stage acting credits. Rolle retired after 21 years as a lieutenant colonel in the US Army Reserves. He served in the 154th Legal Support Detachment,and the 2nd Legal Operations Detachment located in New Orleans,Louisiana. Rolle was mobilized and deployed to Afghanistan from October 2018 through April 2019 serving as the USFOR-A Chief Investigator for Gross Violations of Human Rights. Upon completion of his tour of duty,he was awarded the Joint Commendation Medal with Combat "C" device,NATO non-article 5 medal,and the Afghanistan Campaign medal with bronze service star.
Anthony Joseph Rackauckas Jr. is a former District Attorney of Orange County,California and a former Superior Court judge.
Otis Dalino Wright II is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
The Naval Justice School (NJS) is an educational institution of the United States Navy whose mission is to instruct Navy,Marine Corps,and Coast Guard officers and enlisted personnel in the fundamental principles of military justice,civil and administrative law,and procedure. In addition to being licensed attorneys in any state or territory of the U.S.,all attorneys in the Judge Advocate General's Corps must undergo training either in this institution,or in the complementary institutions of the United States Army and the United States Air Force,allowing them to act as trial or defense counsel at military courts-martial.
Anthony Patrick "Tony" Capozzi is an American trial attorney and political consultant and participant. During his legal career,he has worked as a solo practitioner,supervising Assistant United States Attorney,adjunct professor of law,and law clerk to Omer Poos of the United States District Court in Springfield,Illinois. He also served as the 79th President to the State Bar of California. He owns and practices law at the Law Offices of Anthony P. Capozzi and serves on the California Commission on Judicial Performance,a post California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed him to in 2010. Since 2005,Capozzi has been the exclusive legal and political consultant for KFSN-TV ABC 30.
Alfred Delucchi was a judge in the Superior Court of Alameda County. Judge Delucchi presided over,among other cases,the trial of Scott Peterson for the murder of his wife Laci Peterson as well as Tyrone Robinson's trial for the murder of Huey Newton. Judge Delucchi's record contains only one reversal.
Antonino "Tony" James Agbayani,Jr. is an American lawyer and judge from California. He is a judge on the Superior Court of San Joaquin County,California.
Eugene L. Balonon is an American lawyer who serves as a judge of the Sacramento County Superior Court.
Jerod Elton Tufte is an American lawyer and jurist who has served as a justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court since 2017. He previously served as state's attorney for Kidder County,counsel for Governor Jack Dalrymple,and district judge.
This page lists notable alumni,students,and faculty of the University of California College of the Law,San Francisco,a public law school in San Francisco,California.
Birgit Fladager is the former District Attorney of Stanislaus County,California. She was elected in June,2006 and re-elected in 2010 and 2014. In each of those years,she got more than 50% of the vote in the primary election. She did not achieve this in 2018 and so ran against Deputy District Attorney John R. Mayne in the general election. She won that election and continued to be in office as of 2020.
Richard Stephen Gebelein was an American politician and jurist who served as the Attorney General of Delaware from 1979 through 1983,as a judge on the Delaware Superior Court from 1984 through 2005,and as an international judge in the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was a member of the Republican Party.
