Harvard Law Review by Quentin L. Kopp, San Mateo Superior Court FEBRUARY 20, 2018 Adopting technology for the sake of having it is an unwise move. Last year, the California Judicial Council proposed that California’s criminal courts jump on a failing bandwagon to inhibit and effectively replace judicial discretion with computer-based algorithms. The present judicial system already […]

There has been a years-long, multi-party feud within California’s judicial system and that feud has a new battleground: bail reform. The power struggle started in 2002 after the decision by the Legislature and then Gov. Gray Davis to consolidate county-governed courts into a statewide system managed by the state Judicial Council, chaired by the Supreme […]