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Show JUDGE J. ALLAN CROCKETT Davis are the Second District and Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele are the Third District and so on down to the Seventh District. They are the courts of what we call general jurisdiction courts. They have the jurisdiction of all cases, civil and criminal, probate, and all other cases. He was the judge in that general district court. They could try any kind of a case from millions of dollars down to however low the people, the litigation may involve, including all manner of criminal cases. Of course, the misdemeanors and traffic offenses and things like that are tried in the city courts, and the appeal is to the district court. Then, of course, above that is the Supreme Court. HR: And that is where you are? AC: That is correct. I previously had followed Judge Schiller as a district judge. As a matter of fact, I went right into his chambers and took over a case that he was hearing when he finished that phase of it on the day he became what he called "functus officio." He finished and I just took over from there and followed in that court for ten years before I went to the Supreme Court. During that time when he was a professor we still had our friendship and some association together. HR: Had the court system, whatever it is, changed from the time he was there as opposed to when you were there? Had 8 |
