(Subscription required) California Supreme Court Justices Goodwin H. Liu and Kelli M. Evans dissented more than 60 times each in the 2024-25 term over the court's refusal to review criminal cases, fueling a sharp rise in recorded dissents and spotlighting concerns about sentences for younger convicts.

(Subscription required) The governor's 15 trial-court appointments span Alameda, Contra Costa, Kern, Los Angeles, Marin, Mendocino, Orange, Riverside (2), San Bernardino, San Francisco (2), Santa Cruz and Siskiyou, reflecting broad criminal, civil and family law experience.

Brett Alldredge, a retired Tulare County judge, was dismayed when San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said earlier this year that most of the city’s judges didn’t take drug crimes seriously. Former San Francisco Judge Suzanne Bolanos was upset by Riverside County DA Mike Hestrin’s condemnation of a local judge last month.

A woman who was statutorily ineligible for a mental health diversion in connection with driving under the influence of alcohol was necessarily barred from such a rerouting of the case with respect to another count that was alleged in the same accusatory pleading, Div. One of this district’s Court of Appeal has determined.