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Yesterday, we addressed the areas of law comprising the California Supreme Court’s criminal docket between 2000 and 2002.  Today, we turn to the final two years of this initial five-year period – 2003 and 2004.

Death penalty decisions were up sharply in 2003.  The Court decided 19 death penalty appeals in 2003, accounting for 30.65%

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Last week, we began a close look at the areas of law decided by the California Supreme Court in its civil and criminal dockets.  We began by addressing the civil docket for the years 2000 through 2004.  Today, we turn to the criminal docket for the same years.

In 2000, the Court decided fifteen death

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Yesterday, we began our review of the areas of law producing the California Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets between 2000 and 2002.  Today, we address the civil docket for the years 2003 and 2004.

The data for 2003 is reported below in Table 51.  Tort law cases were down significantly, but were still the

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Last week, we wrapped up our detailed analysis of the originating jurisdictions for the California Supreme Court’s civil, criminal and automatic appeal death penalty dockets between 2000 and 2015.  Today, we begin a new phase of our analysis – what areas of the law does the Court draw its docket from?

In Table 48 below,

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Today, we conclude our analysis of the originating jurisdictions for the California Supreme Court’s civil, criminal and death penalty dockets between 2000 and 2015.

We began our analysis by reviewing the top ten counties in California in terms of population. How closely do those counties’ share of the population match their shares of each docket?

9111260761_d1a98ee7e4_zFor the past several weeks, we’ve been taking a close look at the originating jurisdictions for the California Supreme Court’s civil, criminal and death penalty dockets between 2000 and 2015.  Today, we take the final step in that analysis, looking at the death penalty docket since 2010.

We’ve shown in previous posts that the death

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For the past several weeks, we’ve been reviewing the originating jurisdictions – in nearly all cases, the county Superior Court – which have accounted for the California Supreme Court’s civil, criminal and death penalty dockets. Yesterday, we reviewed the civil docket between 2010 and 2015.  Today, we turn to the criminal docket for the same

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Over the past few weeks, we’ve been reviewing the originating jurisdiction for the California Supreme Court’s civil, criminal and death penalty dockets since 2000.  Today, we begin the final phase of our review: the years 2010-2015, beginning with the civil docket.

We began this process by reviewing the 2010 county population data for California.  That

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In the past two weeks, we’ve reviewed the geographical sources of the California Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets between 2005 and 2009.  Today, we address the automatic appeal death penalty docket.

Los Angeles county accounted for more than half of the automatic appeal death penalty docket in 2005 – 13 of 25 cases.  In