California Court of Appeal

In a criminal action, subject matter jurisdiction is a matter for the court to determine when the jurisdictional facts are controverted, and pretrial resolution of a venue question by the court is both proper and superior to disposition of the issue by jury verdict.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/08/2002
• Published 10/08/2002

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey J. Stuetz, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Robert M. Foster and Garrett Beaumont, Supervising Deputy Attorneys General, and Warren P. Robinson, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.