Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles / Joined 1999 / Served to 2004

John Oscar Harris

Judge, Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles

John Oscar Harris was a Judge of the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles (454 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1999. He previously served on the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1910–1990
Tenure: 1999–2004 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1972	Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–
1999	Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Harris authored 808 published opinions for the court (1972–1986), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Nobis v. State (130 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 335 of these were attributed to Harris by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1981	Nobis v. State	401 So. 2d 191	130
1982	Walker v. State	416 So. 2d 1083	97
1972	Haggler v. State	270 So. 2d 690	93
1984	Vinzant v. State	462 So. 2d 1037	90
1981	Miller v. State	405 So. 2d 41	84
1983	McConnell v. State	429 So. 2d 662	78
1977	Summers v. State	348 So. 2d 1126	67
1975	Bass v. State	313 So. 2d 208	67
1983	Trawick v. State	431 So. 2d 574	63
1984	Marschke v. State	450 So. 2d 177	62
1983	Crosslin v. State	446 So. 2d 675	61
1972	Eady v. State	267 So. 2d 516	61
1984	Warrick v. State	460 So. 2d 320	60
1979	McBryar v. State	368 So. 2d 568	58
1981	Hobbs v. State	401 So. 2d 276	57

Showing the 15 most-cited of 809 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was John Oscar Harris on?: John Oscar Harris was a Judge of the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles.

Sources

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5 years on the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).