Terms Used In 7 Guam Code Ann. § 8109

  • Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
) The Presiding Judge shall nominate a Chief Probation Officer, subject to the approval of the Judicial Council, who shall be subject to removal in accordance with the Personnel Rules and Regulations of the Judicial Branch promulgated by the Judicial Council.

(b) The duties of the Chief Probation Officer shall be established in writing by the Superior Court Administrator and approved by the Judicial Council.

(c) The Judicial Council may assign other duties as necessary to the
Chief Probation Officer.

(d) The Chief Probation Officer may assign deputies and assistants in such numbers as may be necessary. The appointment, removal and salaries of such deputies and assistants shall be governed by the applicable Personnel Rules and Regulations governing employment practices within the Judicial Branch as promulgated by the Judicial Council.

SOURCE: Added by P.L. 21-147:2 (Jan. 14, 1993). Repealed and reenacted by P.L.
24-139:39 (Feb. 7, 1998). Amended by P.L. 27-031:31 (Oct. 31, 2003).

2015 NOTE: Subsection designations were added in accordance with the authority granted by 1 Guam Code Ann. § 1606.

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COURT DECISIONS: The Supreme Court, in Pangelinan v. Gutierrez, 2000 Guam
11 (2000); affirmed by the Ninth Circuit as 276 F.3d 534 (1/10/2002), held P.L. 24-
139 not to have existed at all as a public law because it was Apocket vetoed@ by the Governor. Therefore, this section reverts to the way it read upon its original enactment as there were no amendments prior to P.L. 24-139. The main difference is to revert the appointment and removal authority to Athe court@ rather than to a AChief Probation Officer@, whose named position is no longer in the law.

1985 SOURCE: CCP § 200 modified to reflect new structure of the courts.

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