Online court trial records?
I'm an working on the history of an individual who, in 2002, was convicted of some crimes in California. I live in Georgia and was *hoping* that it would be possible to get copies of these records either online or copied and sent to me. It will be several months before I can make the time to go out there. The problem is I'm not exactly sure of when the trial happened (in terms of start of trial, end of trial, etc). I do know the individual was convicted and where they were sentenced to serve their time. I do not know the actual dates or what county/district/etc. the trial occurred in.
Does anyone know of any online sites where I could find this information? If the trial transcipts, court records, etc are not available online, does anyone know how I would go about getting them? Where would I write? How would I find out where the trial occurred? Etc.
I apologize for such open-ended questions but this is something that I've gotten into just recently (about 6 weeks ago) and now I'm at a roadblock. I've checked LexisNexis (sp?) but I don't know if that is what I would need. I hope not as it seems rather cost-prohibitive to me.
Thank you in advance for any help/information you can give. And thank you for taking the time to read this.
J. Thomas