Last week, we tracked the data for which county trial courts accounted for the Supreme Court’s civil cases from the Fourth District from 1990 to 2019. This week, we’re looking at the criminal side of the ledger.
In 1990, the Supreme Court decided three criminal cases from San Diego county and one from Riverside. In 1991, the Court decided three cases from Orange county and one from San Bernardino. In 1992, the Court decided five cases from Orange county, three from San Diego and one from San Bernardino. In 1993, the Court decided three cases from Orange, two from Riverside and San Bernardino and one from San Diego. In 1994, there were six criminal cases from San Diego, four from Orange county, two from Riverside and San Bernardino and one from Imperial county.
In 1995, the Court decided two cases from Orange county, two from San Diego county and one from Riverside county. In 1996, the Court decided four cases from San Diego and one from Riverside. In 1997, the Court decided six cases from Orange county, two from Riverside and one from San Diego. In 1998, the cases were equally distributed – two each from Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego. In 1999, the Court decided three cases from Orange county and one each from Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego.
The Supreme Court decided seven criminal cases from the Fourth in 2000: five of them originated in San Diego and two in Orange county. In 2001, the Court decided four cases from Orange county, three from Riverside and two from San Bernardino. The following year, the Court decided eight cases from San Diego, six from Orange county and one from Imperial county. In 2003, the Court decided six cases from Orange county, three from San Diego and one from San Bernardino. Finally, in 2004, the Court decided nine cases from San Diego, two each from Orange and San Bernardino counties and one from Riverside county.
Join us back here tomorrow as we address the data for the years 2005 to 2019.
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