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| Judge | County | Cases | Granted | Denied | Continued | Grant rate |
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| Charles F. Haines | San Francisco County | 3,253 | 524 | 406 | 920 | 16% |
| Joseph M. Quinn | San Francisco County | 2,706 | 879 |
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| 477 |
| 32% |
| Christine Van Aken | San Francisco County | 1,507 | 509 | 236 | 189 | 34% |
| Denise M. Hippach | Santa Barbara County | 708 | 72 | 10 | 367 | 10% |
| Colleen Sterne | Santa Barbara County | 698 | 135 | 12 | 60 | 19% |
| James F. Rigali | Santa Barbara County | 583 | 21 | 1 | 185 | 4% |
| James T. Chou | Marin County | 579 | 135 | 10 | 123 | 23% |
| Jed Beebe | Santa Barbara County | 543 | 24 | 2 | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | San Francisco County | 443 | 110 | 76 | 109 | 25% |
| Stephanie L. Jamieson | Merced County | 433 | 91 | 32 | 47 | 21% |
| Harold E. Kahn | San Francisco County | 429 | 153 | 54 | 45 | 36% |
| Richard C. Miadich | Sacramento County | 390 | 137 | 61 | 90 | 35% |
| Patricia Kelly | Santa Barbara County | 388 | 9 | 6 | 78 | 2% |
| Unknown | El Dorado County | 378 | 93 | 51 | 72 | 25% |
| Not Specified | Shasta County | 308 | 61 | 20 | 145 | 20% |
| Cynthia P. Smith | Napa County | 305 | 105 | 20 | 89 | 34% |
| Unknown | Shasta County | 295 | 80 | 17 | 152 | 27% |
| Ai Mori | San Francisco County | 270 | 57 | 27 | 77 | 21% |
| Bobby P. Luna | San Francisco County | 263 | 49 | 38 | 51 | 19% |
| William Abramson | Plumas County | 259 | 19 | 1 | 30 | 7% |
| Matthew A. Siroka | Marin County | 259 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4% |
| Timothy Staffel | Santa Barbara County | 255 | 29 | 0 | 65 | 11% |
| Ronald E. Quidachay | San Francisco County | 249 | 57 | 24 | 72 | 23% |
| Patrick McKinney | Alameda County | 232 | 102 | 27 | 64 | 44% |
| Jamilah A. Jefferson | Alameda County | 231 | 84 | 11 | 44 | 36% |
| Benson | Butte County | 220 | 104 | 21 | 36 | 47% |
| Not specified | Butte County | 218 | 72 | 3 | 82 | 33% |
| Thomas Anderle | Santa Barbara County | 216 | 77 | 41 | 24 | 36% |
| Layne H. Melzer | Orange County | 209 | 82 | 18 | 59 | 39% |
| Joseph J. Solga | Napa County | 203 | 91 | 16 | 57 | 45% |
| Trisha J. Hirashima | Placer County | 200 | 71 | 46 | 43 | 36% |
| Nahal Iravani-Sani | Santa Clara County | 199 | 88 | 42 | 13 | 44% |
| Julie G. Yap | Sacramento County | 198 | 54 | 48 | 47 | 27% |
| Samuel K. Feng | San Francisco County | 196 | 55 | 23 | 38 | 28% |
| Donna D. Geck | Santa Barbara County | 192 | 58 | 32 | 36 | 30% |
| David J. Hesseltine | Orange County | 189 | 67 | 43 | 48 | 35% |
| Not Specified | Nevada County | 184 | 21 | 6 | 94 | 11% |
| Rafael Sivilla-Jones | Santa Clara County | 182 | 99 | 34 | 7 | 54% |
| Jeffrey B. El-Hajj | Santa Clara County | 180 | 88 | 31 | 14 | 49% |
| Unknown | Los Angeles County | 178 | 87 | 25 | 12 | 49% |
| Michelle Tong | San Francisco County | 174 | 25 | 26 | 47 | 14% |
| John M. True III | San Francisco County | 173 | 53 | 19 | 33 | 31% |
| Kristi Culver Kapetan | Fresno County | 172 | 62 | 48 | 10 | 36% |
| TIM P. KAM | Solano County | 169 | 60 | 32 | 34 | 36% |
| Dennis W. Hayashi | San Francisco County | 169 | 25 | 8 | 25 | 15% |
| Richard Y. Lee | Orange County | 156 | 59 | 38 | 12 | 38% |
| MICHAEL W. JONES | Placer County | 155 | 46 | 36 | 30 | 30% |
| Eunice Lee | Santa Clara County | 154 | 62 | 20 | 11 | 40% |
| Mosbarger | Butte County | 154 | 52 | 25 | 31 | 34% |
| David Foster | Merced County | 154 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 10% |