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Justice Alex C. McDonald was appointed to the California Appellate Court in 1995 and was confirmed by the electorate in 2002. He had a long career in law, including managing a private law practice in San Diego, being an associate and partner in two law firms, and being a law clerk for the California Supreme Court. He has been listed in Best Lawyers in America since 1987 and was a Revising Editor for the California Law Review from 1959-1961. He earned his LL.M. from the University of Virginia School of Law, his LL.B. from the University of California Boalt Hall School of Law, and his B.S. from Stanford University. He was born in Butte, Montana in 1936 and was admitted to the California Bar in 1962.
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Nat Agliano fell into a legal career almost by accident when he was visiting Boalt Hall, the law school at Berkeley. He then went to Hastings Law School and worked in the Attorney General's Office for three years. During this time, he handled criminal law cases and argued cases in the Court of Appeal. After leaving the Attorney General's Office, he went into private practice and argued a criminal case before the Supreme Court.
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The Office of the Attorney General (AG) and Appellate Defenders, Inc. (ADI) have entered into agreements to accept electronic service of documents on each other in certain criminal appeals. Copies of these agreements have been provided to the court and are maintained in a court master file. In addition, the AG has agreed to accept email service from panel attorneys designated by ADI in a Notice of Approval. All panel attorneys so designated have executed an agreement to accept email service from the AG.
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This order from the Court of Appeal of the State of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division One, allows attorneys and paralegals from Appellate Defenders Inc. (ADI) and any counsel appointed by the court to view and copy all superior court file materials (including sealed and confidential materials) relating to their clients' cases, and any related cases, to the same extent that their clients or the clients' trial counsel would be permitted to view and copy such files.
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The Court of Appeal has established guidelines for submitting documents electronically that a party wishes to become part of the record on appeal. This includes submitting documents as a separate .pdf file and ensuring they are formatted in compliance with California Rules of Court. There is also a limit of 25 megabytes for the file size.
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The Court of Appeal has established guidelines for parties to follow when submitting documents to become part of the record on appeal. The documents must be submitted as a separate .pdf file at the same time as the motion, application, or request. They must also be formatted in compliance with the court's Local Rule 8(b). Documents over 300 pages in length must follow California Rules of Court, Rule 8.74(a)(5).
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Stephen Kane is a retired Associate Justice of the Fifth District Court of Appeal in Fresno. He grew up in San Mateo, California and had a loving family. His mother, Mary Catherine Galligan -Kane, and his father, who was a retired member of the Court of Appeal First Appellate District, had a big influence on him. His father was appointed by President Reagan to be the Ambassador to Ireland. Stephen Kane is married to Brenda and they have four children. During his formal, early educational period, he attended Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, a Jesuit-run college prep school. He met lifelong friends there, including Judge Larry O'Neill. Stephen Kane's experiences and relationships with his family and friends have had a big impact on his life.
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Justice George Nicholson was born in Dallas, Texas in 1941 and grew up in a large family with his father being a baker. He was taught early right and wrong and spent a lot of time in the fields running barefooted. He was close to all of his aunts and uncles and they all worked and stayed married. He married his wife three months out of high school and they have been married 58 years. He grew up playing baseball with black kids in Oakland and knew the famous George Powles who sent many players to the Major League Baseball, NBA, and Olympics. He learned to love the farm and animals and working people and had a life full of positive experiences with people of different ethnicities. He had to get good grades to be able to play baseball and his parents urged him to do good but did not micromanage his schooling or athletics. He and his friends had aspirations to be professional baseball players and they all said they would not sign unless they all signed. Two of them did sign, Carl Shelen and Jimmy McClure.
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Justice Rebecca Wiseman was born in Sanger, California and grew up in Fresno. Her father had a very interesting life, having run away from home at 16 and riding a rail to California. He worked in the Central San Joaquin Valley picking grapes and driving trucks. During World War II, he was a glider pilot in the mission "A Bridge Too Far" and was captured by the Germans. Her mother was from Pennsylvania and worked for the Department of Agriculture. Rebecca attended McClain High School and Fresno State, majoring in Journalism. She wanted to be a TV broadcaster and got her first job at KOVR in Sacramento. After a bad experience at a job interview, she decided to go to law school. She went on to have a successful career as an Associate Justice of the Fifth District Court of Appeal in Fresno, retiring in 2013.
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Justice Richard Huffman is an Associate Justice on the Fourth Appellate District, Division 1 who was born and raised in Los Angeles. He worked various jobs as a young person, including delivering papers and working in a grocery store, and was the first person in his family to go to college. He worked his way through college and law school while also working full-time jobs. After law school, he took a job with the Attorney General's office and eventually became involved in a mob prosecution in El Centro. He later became the Chief Deputy District Attorney in San Diego, where he was responsible for hiring a number of women and minority people.
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Judith McConnell was born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, where her father was a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman. She was a tomboy, and she wanted to be a cowboy or cowgirl, wearing her diamond-studded holster to church. She went to Berkeley for college and law school, and when she graduated, she found it difficult to find a job as a lawyer in the private sector because of her gender. She eventually found a job in the public sector and went on to become a successful lawyer. She was inspired to become a judge after seeing Governor Jerry Brown appoint women to the bench.
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Justice J. McIntyre grew up in Chicago, Illinois and attended New Trier High School in Winnetka. He was involved in football and singing in high school. His father had a lumber business and he worked there in the summers. After graduating high school, Justice McIntyre applied to three colleges: Brown, Stanford, and Cornell. He was accepted to all three and chose to attend Brown. He was already interested in a career in law and believed he was quick and good at simplifying issues. After graduating from Brown, he decided to attend Stanford Law School and drove out to California without ever having seen the school. At Stanford, he learned more about simplifying issues and how to be a successful trial lawyer. After graduating from Stanford, he became a successful trial lawyer in San Diego.
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