(Subscription required) She began issuing the tentative rulings in May, and by the beginning of July, she said she eliminated the backlog. Today, it’s become a routine practice. Pesce spends four days a week hearing matters from the bench and one day a week writing tentatives. On an average Monday, she writes 20 to 25.
A man convicted of torturing and killing a Long Beach mother more than two decades ago was re-sentenced to life without parole in prison on Tuesday, March 30, after his previous death sentence was overturned by the California Supreme Court.
Across California, 44,241 people are being held in a county jail without being convicted or sentenced for a crime. That’s three quarters of all inmates.
