1048.1
Effective Jan 1, 2017Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 91, Sec. 1. (AB 1272) Effective January 1, 2017.
(a) In scheduling a trial date at an arraignment in superior court involving any of the following offenses, reasonable efforts shall be made to avoid setting that trial, when that case is assigned to a particular prosecuting attorney, on the same day that another case is set for trial involving the same prosecuting attorney:
- (1) Murder, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 187.
- (2) An alleged sexual assault offense, as described in subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 11165.1.
- (3) An alleged child abuse offense, as described in Section 11165.6.
- (4) A case being handled in the Career Criminal Prosecution Program pursuant to Chapter 2.2 (commencing with Section 999b).
- (5) An alleged offense against a person with a developmental disability.
- (b) For purposes of this section, “developmental disability” has the same meaning as found in Section 4512 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.