On Oct. 19–20, the Judicial Branch Data Analytics Summit in San Francisco gathered professionals from across California to share best practices and examples of how data can be effectively utilized to support court functions. More than 300 individuals from more than 40 courts participated in the event.

(Subscription required) Associate Justices Kelli Evans and Joshua Groban each received roughly 70% support statewide, according to vote counts posted Wednesday morning. Both justices won backing for 12-year terms in 56 of California’s 58 counties; only voting majorities in the sparsely populated northeast counties of Modoc and Lassen said “no.”

The Sixth District Court of Appeal has held that a drug dealer is not liable for murder as a matter of law relating to the death of his roommates’ 19-month-old child following her ingestion of fentanyl, which he regularly supplied to the decedents’ parents.

Div. One of the Fourth District Court of Appeal held yesterday that a trial judge did not abuse her discretion in allowing the expert testimony of a forensic psychologist who admitted that she used ChatGPT as a “thought partner” in preparing a report opposing pretrial mental health diversion where the jurist found credible the witness’ attestation that she used the tool for organizational purposes.