* 1998 – A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives " Unabomber " Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.

Plea bargains are so common in the Superior Courts of California ( the general trial courts ) that the Judicial Council of California has published an optional seven-page form ( containing all mandatory advisements required by federal and state law ) to help prosecutors and defense attorneys reduce such bargains into written plea agreements.

The investigation of incest allegations in California was also changed, with cases led by social workers using leading and coercive interviewing techniques avoided by police investigators, and alterations to the prosecution of these cases that resulted in a greater number of confessions in exchange for plea bargains from fathers.

Under the statutory sentencing ranges, Benitez faced anywhere from ten years to life in prison, and his court-appointed counsel began discussing a plea bargain while he faced trial before the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

Lister also admitted in his plea agreement that a certified tax preparer and co-conspirator Arcelia Chavez, 48, of Northridge, California aided and abetted him in obtaining one of the fraudulent mortgages and a fraudulent HELOC by preparing a false CPA letter, as well as fabricating W-2s and a pay stub.

For challenges to convictions, either at trial or in a plea bargain, that have deportation as a collateral consequence, California courts require a petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus.

Upon learning of rumors of a possible insanity plea on the part of Thurmond, law enforcement authorities directed two psychiatrists from Agnews State Mental Hospital in Santa Clara, California to examine both Thurmond and Holmes to preclude such a defense.

But California is where we're goin ''.

California is too far, he thought.

The really remarkable thing to me is that most California natives unhesitatingly elect to slow down and permit the invading car free access.

Their meeting at San Francisco is nominally scheduled as a conference of the California Democratic Council directorate.

I would like to see you devote some space in an early issue to the news blackout concerning President Kennedy's activities, so far as Southern California is concerned.

In sixteen states, the fiscal year ending of the cities ( June 30 ) is the same as that of the state: Alaska, Arizona, California, Delaware, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Hawaii ).

In California is located one of the most popular of the national parks -- Yosemite.

Such items recall the California journalist who reported an accident involving a movie star: `` The area in which Miss N -- was injured is spectacularly scenic ''.

The vast Central Valley of California is one of the most productive agricultural areas in the world.

It is an accepted juridical principle in California that a Superior Court decision does not constitute a binding legal precedent.

Whosever fault, it is evident that Brumidi intended to fill out the whole frieze with his `` histories '' and come full circle with the scene of the discovery of California gold.

Emcee Jack Herbert insists Dick Nixon's campaign slogan for governor of California is, `` Knight Must Fall ''!!

In private life, Miss Garson is Mrs. E. E. Fogelson and on the go most of the time commuting from Dallas, where they maintain an apartment, to their California home in Los Angeles' suburban Bel-Air to their ranch in Pecos, New Mexico.

Published annually by William Hord Richardson, the 1962 edition, subtitled Society Register of Southern California, is scheduled to arrive with Monday morning's postman.

Pleasure boating is just scooting into its best months in California as crisp breezes bring out craft of every size on every kind of water -- ocean, lake and reservoir.

He died in Los Angeles at the age of ninety-six, and is interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Mission Hills, California.

The western terrestrial garter snake ( Thamnophis elegans ) in California is largely aquatic and depends heavily on two species of frog that are diminishing in numbers, the Yosemite toad ( Bufo canorus ) and the mountain yellow-legged frog ( Rana muscosa ), putting the snake's future at risk.

* 1966 – The Church of Satan is established at the Black House in San Francisco, California.

This conflict may have been aggravated by the influx of less settled peoples, Numic-speakers such as the Utes, Shoshones and Paiute people, who may have originated in what is today California.

Sport harvesting of red abalone is permitted with a California fishing license and an abalone stamp card.

The largest abalone recorded in California is 12. 34 inches, caught by John Pepper somewhere off the coast of Humboldt county in September 1993.

* 1970 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.

As of May 2012, it is on loan to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California for a major exhibition.

The area is a summering place for a number of migratory birds including Brent geese, Eurasian Wigeons, and the pintails of California.

The Shawn Carlson's double-blind chart matching tests, in which 28 astrologers agreed to match over 100 natal charts to psychological profiles generated by the California Psychological Inventory ( CPI ) test, is one of the most renowned tests of astrology.

* 1913 – A major labour dispute, known as the Wheatland Hop Riot, starts in Wheatland, California.

Brooks was born in Beverly Hills, California, the son of Thelma Leeds ( née Goodman ), a singer and actress, and Harry Einstein, a radio comedian who performed on Eddie Cantor's radio program and was known as Parkyakarkus.

The theater program at Caltech is known as TACIT, or Theater Arts at the California Institute of Technology.

* Cortex Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical company based in Irvine, California specializing in positive allosteric modulators of the AMPA receptor known as Ampakines

Engelbart took a position at SRI International ( SRI, known then as the Stanford Research Institute ) in Menlo Park, California in 1957.

California clapper rail is a known resident of the western terminus area.

The endangered species California clapper rail is known to be present in the western bridge terminus area.

Headrick, who is now regarded as the " Father of Disc Golf ", designed and installed the first standardized target course in what was then known as Oak Grove Park in La Cañada Flintridge, California.

Greg Broussard ( born August 31, 1963 in Los Angeles, California ), better known by his stage name Egyptian Lover, is an American musician, vocalist, producer and DJ, and was an important part of the L. A. dance music and rap scene in the early 1980s.

Ken Thompson was very familiar with an earlier editor known as qed from University of California at Berkeley, Ken Thompson's alma mater ; he reimplemented qed on the CTSS and Multics systems, so it is natural that he carried many features of qed forward into ed.

The best known: Guru ( USA ) inspired by Mycin, Personal Consultant Plus ( USA ), Nexpert Object ( developed by Neuron Data, company founded in California by three French ), Genesia ( developed by French public company Electricité de France and marketed by Steria ), VP Expert ( USA ).

The American industry, or " Hollywood ", as it was becoming known after its new geographical center in California, gained the position it has held, more or less, ever since: film factory for the world, exporting its product to most countries on earth and controlling the market in many of them.

* California State University, Fresno, also known as Fresno State University

In California, Sultana ( known there as Thompson Seedless ) grapes are sometimes diverted from the raisin or table market to produce white juice.

Two Pacific Ocean populations are known to exist: one of not more than 130 individuals ( according to the most recent population assessment in 2008 ) whose migratory route is presumed to be between the Sea of Okhotsk and southern Korea, and a larger one with a population between 20, 000 and 22, 000 individuals in the eastern Pacific travelling between the waters off Alaska and Baja California Sur.

This was the first of 11 winters from 1855 through 1865 known as the " bonanza period ", during which gray whaling along the coast of Baja California reached its peak.

Native Americans had known of the tar seeps in southern California for thousands of years, and used the tar to waterproof their canoes.

Company trapping brigades were sent south from Fort Vancouver, along what became known as the Siskiyou Trail, into Northern California as far south as the San Francisco Bay Area.

The California Institute of Technology, another school known for its strength in the natural sciences and engineering, is located 26 miles away from Harvey Mudd College.

Johann August Sutter ( February 15, 1803 – June 18, 1880 ) was a Swiss pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush by the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall and the mill making team at Sutter's Mill, and for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, the state's capital.

Weissmuller would later, upon moving to the prosperous Bel Air section of Los Angeles, California, ( specifically to an area known today as East Gate Bel Air ), famously commission architect Paul Williams to design a large home with a 300-foot serpentine swimming pool that curled around the house ( and which still exists to this day ).

In 1994 he met 28-year-old Tammy Baliszewski, also known as Tammy Alexander, at a bar in Manhattan Beach, California.

In the mid 2000s Swedish company Distec invented a library book vending machine known as the GoLibrary, that offers library books to people where there is no branch, limited hours, or high traffic locations such as El Cerrito del Norte BART station in California.

Although a lead vocalist named O ' Dean was auditioned, Lee had known Vince Neil from their high school days at Charter Oak High School in Covina, California and the two had performed in different bands on the garage band circuit.