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I'm assuming they must have been in unincorporated/county jurisdiction as it was the county DA prosecuting and not the city one. County police are also far more
by cc439 10y ago
I'm assuming they must have been in unincorporated/county jurisdiction as it was the county DA prosecuting and not the city one. County police are also far more likely to fail to respond in many places as county departments have vast amounts of area to cover with ever shrinking amounts of manpower due to budget constraints.
That said, I have no idea how CA'slaw enforcement/county government/judicial/legal system might differ from that of the states I've lived in.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> I'm assuming they must have been in unincorporated/county jurisdiction as it was the county DA prosecuting and not the city one. This assumption is based on false premises; to wit, that there is such a thing as a "city DA" with a different geographical focus than the District Attorney of the county in which the city is located, such that offenses in city limits are prosecuted by the "city DA" and those in unincorporated areas are prosecuted by the "county DA". In California, however, DAs offices are county offices which cover all of the county, both incorporated and unincorporated areas; no city has its own DAs office (well, except San Francisco, but that's because the City and County of San Francisco is one entity.)