HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC RESO 10,728RESOLUTION NO. 10,728
RESOLUTION URGING ADOPTION OF LEGISLATION TO IMPLEMENT
CERTAIN RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE SELECT
COMMITTEE ON TRIAL COURT DELAY
WHEREAS, the Select Committee on Trial Court Delay,
constituted by the State of California has studied California
judicial processes as a part of the criminal justice system;
and
WHEREAS, after extensive research, the Select Committee
on trial Court Delay has proposed certain recommendations to im-
prove the California System of Criminal Justice; and
WHEREAS, the City Council feels that adoption of
certain recommendations would improve the judicial process,
and provide for equal justice under the law, as well as mod-
ernize and make more effective the judicial system in California.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council
of the City of National City urges the California State Legis-
lature to adopt legislation implementing the following recommend-
ations of the Select Committee on Trial Court Delay:
1. Expand the infraction category of public offenses
to include moving violations of a non -serious nature, presently
classified as misdemeanors.
2. Reduce jury size in selected criminal cases to
provide a criminal jury composed of six people in those felony
prosecutions where an alleged offense is neither punishable
with death nor with a maximum sentence of life imprisonment;
or where the alleged offense is prosecuted as a misdemeanor.
3. Authorize majority verdicts in selected criminal
cases with a five -sixth majority of the jurors in certain
felony prosecutions, and in prosecutions where the alleged
offense is a misdemeanor.
4. Require certification of counsel for participation
in felony trial proceedings by creating a commission to establish
and administer a compulsory certification program for counsel
who participate in felony trial proceedings.
5. Enact an alibi statute to regulate a mutual
pretrial disclosure of the identity of witnesses who are
expected to contradict or support an alibi defense at trial.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 18th day of July,
1972.
ATTEST:
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VICE MAYOR