1.   Also it was decided to not choose a county judge so as not to create a backlog of felony cases in that court.

2.   As the lowest-level trial court in the state, village courts pass felony cases on to the state Supreme Court for trial.

3.   A year later, he was named an acting justice in the state Supreme Court where all felony cases are heard.

4.   But now the demand for jury trials in felony cases has risen so sharply that many counties, especially Los Angeles, cannot cope.

5.   Connecticut uses a six-person jury, with two alternates, for most felony cases.

6.   Fortunato said he had ordered a retrial after learning that Bruce Vealey, the lawyer representing Dunn in both cases, had no experience trying a felony case.

7.   He had never studied criminal law, never tried a felony case and never tried a case before a jury.

8.   In fact, the contrasting image of a modern-day troubadour on trial in a felony sex case is only one of the contradictions in his young life.

9.   In the past, Bascue said, the overwhelming majority of defendants in felony cases had accepted plea bargains rather than go to trial.

10.   Last year, roughly half the felony gun cases brought to court in Manhattan were deemed unconstitutional.