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John S. Somers

Judge · Superior Court of Kern County · 2013–2024

Presiding Justice, Superior Court of California, County of Kern 2015–2016 · Judge, Superior Court of California, County of Kern 2008–2015

56cases reviewed on appeal
33%reversed, in whole or part, of 52 merits decisions

Outcomes on appeal

affirmed 30 reversed 13 modified 5 remanded 3 vacated 2 reversed in part 2

Areas

criminal 56

By year: 2016 14 · 2022 12 · 2015 7 · 2013 7 · 2021 6 · 2014 5 · 2020 3 · 2024 1 · 2018 1 ·

Analysis

No analyses yet. When they exist, this shows counts of the model's findings across this judge's reviewed cases — with the court's own dispositions beside them, and only from 10 cases.

Cases

  1. People v. Pendergrass CA5 F086871 · 2024-09-16 · criminal · modified
  2. People v. Cummings CA5 F081244 · 2022-08-29 · criminal · reversed
  3. People v. Lara CA5 F080789 · 2022-08-04 · criminal · reversed
  4. People v. Delgadillo CA5 F081580 · 2022-06-27 · criminal · vacated
  5. People v. Garcia CA5 F078249M · 2022-06-01 · criminal · reversed
  6. People v. Hauptman CA5 F081862 · 2022-05-06 · criminal · remanded
  7. People v. Garcia CA5 F078249A · 2022-05-05 · criminal · reversed
  8. People v. Hoffman CA5 F081577 · 2022-04-26 · criminal · affirmed
  9. People v. Edwards CA5 F081352 · 2022-04-21 · criminal · vacated
  10. People v. Rodriguez F078864 · 2022-03-01 · criminal · reversed
  11. People v. Rhoads CA5 F079979 · 2022-02-23 · criminal · reversed in part
  12. People v. Williams CA5 F081027 · 2022-02-16 · criminal · affirmed
  13. People v. Garcia CA5 F078249 · 2022-02-01 · criminal · reversed
  14. People v. Bermudez CA5 F081814 · 2021-12-14 · criminal · affirmed
  15. People v. Sanders CA5 F081010 · 2021-12-06 · criminal · remanded
  16. People v. Groves CA5 F080102 · 2021-06-24 · criminal · affirmed
  17. People v. Kimber CA5 F080889 · 2021-06-18 · criminal · affirmed
  18. People v. Gonzalez CA5 F078988 · 2021-04-01 · criminal · affirmed
  19. People v. Stetson CA5 F078654 · 2021-02-26 · criminal · remanded
  20. People v. Muratalla CA5 F078928 · 2020-10-01 · criminal · affirmed
  21. People v. Nash F079509 · 2020-08-04 · criminal · reversed
  22. People v. Quinonez F076433 · 2020-03-12 · criminal · modified
  23. People v. Gutierrez F074601 · 2018-03-29 · criminal · reversed
  24. People v. Watkins CA5 F071588 · 2016-09-29 · criminal · affirmed
  25. People v. Ojeda CA5 F068784 · 2016-09-26 · criminal · affirmed