According to the report, Kern County prosecutors file 24 cases per 100,000 residents, making Kern the county with the highest rate of felony filings using Proposition 36. The county with the next highest rate is Orange County with 18 cases filed per 100,000 residents.

A Department of Motor Vehicles hearing officer did not assume the proscribed role of an “advocate” by introducing and admitting into evidence a sworn and an unsworn arrest report at a hearing to determine if a motorist would suffer a one-year driver’s license suspension for refusing to submit to a chemical test to determine if he was intoxicated while operating his vehicle, Div. One of the Fourth District Court of Appeal determined yesterday.

Top-level executives of a technology company were properly held personally liable, in a civil action by an individual, for filing false financial returns, Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal has held, rejecting their contention that only the company was the “filer” and it therefore solely bore responsibility for fraudulent representations as to the nature of a pay-off pursuant to a settlement agreement.

Brady McCarron, spokesman for U.S. Marshals Service in Washington, D.C., said Dugan is being charged with two federal felony counts: obstruction and concealing an individual. McCarron also confirmed Dugan was arrested at about 8 a.m. at the Milwaukee County Courthouse.