The temporary changes come following the retirement of 

Formed in 2010, the Tribal Court-State Court Forum, made up of judges and members of both the tribal and state court communities, provides direction in areas such as jurisdictional issues, enforcement and recognition of protective orders and judgments, and access to justice in Indian country in the areas of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and teen-dating violence.

Div. Three of the First District Court of Appeal has held that the crime of causing injury while driving drunk is not a lesser included offense of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, where separate victims are attached to each of the counts, such that a guilty verdict on the latter charge does not preclude a conviction on the former.

Div. One of the Fourth District Court of Appeal held yesterday that a trial judge erred in dismissing a murder prosecution based on a 27-year delay in bringing charges. One man—Steven Thomas—was successfully prosecuted in 1996 for the fatal stabbing two years earlier of Karl Senser during a robbery. But the San Diego District Attorney’s Office did not believe it had sufficient evidence to convict Leon Daniel McInnis who was believed to be Thomas’s accomplice.