Rodney Melville

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Rodney Melville (* 1941 in Douglas , Arizona ) is an American judge who came into the limelight primarily through a criminal case against the musician Michael Jackson .

Life

Melville grew up in San Francisco as the son of a preacher and teacher. After serving in the US Navy on a submarine , he first until 1965 at the San Diego State University and then to 1968 at the Hastings College of the Law of the University of California Law studied. Afterwards he worked as a lawyer in criminal and civil cases at the law firm Melville & Iwasko . In particular, he was state certified as an attorney for family law . He then served two years as the district attorney in the San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office and he settled in 1971 in Santa Maria , Santa Barbara County . After rehab, he became a member of Alcoholics Anonymous and continued to support this association after attending the meetings.

In 1987 he was appointed Judge of the Municipal Court by Governor George Deukmejian and in 1990 he was appointed Judge of the Santa Barbara County Superior Court , where he served 17 years. Melville has been retired since 2007. Melville was considered a very fair judge during his service, but he led his trials with a firm hand.

During his tenure as a judge, he was instrumental in setting up the Chamber for the Abuse of Drugs and Other Substances. He served on the board of directors of the California Judges Association from 1997 to 2000, was named The Chief Probation Officers of California's, Judicial Officer of the Year for 2001, and received the California Coalition for Mental Health, Outstanding Mental Health Advocate Award for the Honored efforts to establish mental health litigation chamber. In 2005 he received the Santa Barbara County Bar Association's John Rickard Judicial Services Award for special service to the justice system in Santa Barbara County.

Rodney Melville was a judge in the criminal case against Michael Jackson , in which the entertainer was acquitted on all 10 counts on June 13, 2005 after a year and a half of trial.

Web links

  • Biography on the homepage of the Superior Court of California (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Judge in Jackson Case Assures There Is Order in His Court New York Times of 28 February 2005
  2. ^ A b Rodney Melville: A Wise Judge , RP-Online February 11, 2004
  3. ↑ Rodney Melville is considered "fair" ( Memento from November 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Der Stern online from January 31, 2005.
  4. ↑ The day as a myth broke up on einestages.spiegel.de
personal data
SURNAME Melville, Rodney
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American judge
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Douglas , Arizona