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.

Div. Four of the Court of Appeal for this district yesterday affirmed a $311,500 compensatory-damages award to a woman whose brother accused her, in emails to her attorney/husband, of attempting to defraud their elderly parents, threatening in the communiques to bring a lawsuit.

Reference to a “course of conduct” in the statute authorizing issuance of civil harassment restraining orders does not restrict imposition of restrictions on a defendant who has committed only a single act of violence, Div. Five of this district’s Court of Appeal has held.