"The Santa Clara County DA has initiated an office-wide "boycott" of a judge who has made adverse rulings, including findings that a prosecutor had lied about evidence that had not been produced in discovery. (California civil procedure permits lawyers to peremptorily challenge a judge, but you can only do it once per case. It's called a "170.6" challenge, or, less formally, "dinging" a judge.) Here's the news story; here's the DA's memo. The DA notes that the public defender's office has engaged in boycotts in the past."
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Location Oakland, Ca - Private Investigator
California Closing Criminal Records
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SB-731 Automatically Sealing of Conviction and Arrest Records A social
justice bill that implements a system to prospectively and retroactively
seal conv...