Your guide to the L.A. County Superior Court Judge Office 87 election

Things to Do in L.A. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Los Angeles County voters will decide four runoff contests for Superior Court seats on Nov. 3, choosing who will preside over criminal and civil cases across the region. This race for an open seat pits a former U.S. assistant attorney who represented President Obama, the FBI and NASA against a seasoned Los Angeles County public defender who has taken more than 100 trials, some with three-strikes implications, to verdict. David DeJute, who defended Obama against the so-called birther claims, spent a decade as vice president of litigation at Sony Pictures Entertainment. He now works in litigation at a private firm.