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(Subscription required) Sen. Tom Umberg, D-Santa Ana, will receive the Shattuck-Price Outstanding Lawyer Award from the Los Angeles County Bar Association this week, honoring his rare blend of legislative leadership and hands-on courtroom advocacy.

Div. Six of this district’s Court of Appeal has held that a trial court did not err in ordering restitution payments to the victims of a crime 30 years after the defendant’s conviction, saying that a court retains jurisdiction to make such a decree even decades after sentencing and that the convict’s due process rights were not violated by the delay.

The Court of Appeal for this district has held that where a judge did not declare bail to be forfeited where the defendant failed to show up the first time, there was no power to make such an order upon a subsequent non-appearance because jurisdiction had been lost.