NCJ Number
80841
Date Published
1981
Length
268 pages
Annotation
The Judicial Council of California and the Administrative Office of the California Courts report their activities for the fiscal year 1979-80.
Abstract
Introductory material relates the constitutional and statutory provisions for the judicial council and describes the council's organization and its committees. The judicial council's report summarizes the sentencing practices followed under California's new, 1976 determinate sentencing law. The report confirms that coincidentally with the operative data of the new sentencing law, dispositions by trial have decreased and guilty pleas have increased relative to total dispositions in superior courts. The judicial council report's second section contains a description of the court interpreter program and its use. Spanish language court interpreters are used far more frequently than interpreters in other languages. Appendixes to the judicial council's report contain study instruments of the interpreter program and cite California rules of court. Part two of this volume comprises the report of the Administrative Office of the California Courts. Reported here are general activities and procedural changes in response to legislative action, changes in the State's rules of court, judicial redistricting, and other matters. Judicial statistics are cited for the State's supreme court, the courts of appeal, superior courts, lower courts, and judicial assignments and assistance. An index to the tables and figures of this report is provided. Additional tabular data are appended.