Commissioner Benjamin Cassady oversees a high-volume, late-day criminal calendar far removed from the sitcom that shares its name.

(Subscription required) The proposal would bar unannounced immigration arrests on or near courthouse grounds, expanding existing protections and responding to renewed enforcement activity.

Div. Five of this district’s Court of Appeal has rejected a criminal defendant’s assertion that a court commissioner was not authorized, absent his stipulation, to preside over a bail review hearing, saying that such matters qualify as “subordinate” actions under the California Constitution even in light of the liberty issues at stake.

(Subscription required) California will no longer count veterans' service-connected disability compensation as income when determining eligibility for superior court fee waivers under legislation signed into law this year.