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Monday Morning Thoughts: Science Will Have to Get Us out of this COVID-19 Mess

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|Date: April 06, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Science Will Have to Get Us out of this COVID-19 Mess

From the start the battle lines over COVID-19 have taken the shape of the political contours of the count ...

From the start the battle lines over COVID-19 have taken the shape of the political contours of the country. Left versus right. Urban versus rural. But in a lot of ways this has been the extension ...

April 06, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Tulare DA Pushes Back against Governor Commutation

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|Date: April 06, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Tulare DA Pushes Back against Governor Commutation

Tulare DA Tim Ward is the Secretary-Treasurer of the conservative California District Attorneys Associati ...

Tulare DA Tim Ward is the Secretary-Treasurer of the conservative California District Attorneys Association. A little over a week ago, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced he was granting 5 par ...

April 06, 2020
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Sympathetic Federal Court Panel Can’t Release COVID-19 Threatened State Prisoners

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|Date: April 06, 2020
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Sympathetic Federal Court Panel Can’t Release COVID-19 Threatened State Prisoners

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – Just as a Sacramento Public Defender ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – Just as a Sacramento Public Defender Office motion, in an attempt to stop a COVID-19 surge by releasing incarcerated from county jai ...

April 06, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 57 – Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 06, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 57 – Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez

Eric Gonzalez was appointed the DA of Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, in 2016 after Ken Thompson, his ...

Eric Gonzalez was appointed the DA of Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, in 2016 after Ken Thompson, his predecessor, died. In 2017, he won his own term. We talked extensively about the COVID-19 threa ...

April 06, 2020
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NY Politicians Disagree with New NY Bail Rollback

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|Date: April 06, 2020
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NY Politicians Disagree with New NY Bail Rollback

By Linh Nguyen NEW YORK -- On Apr 2, 2020, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo passed a budget bill that inclu ...

By Linh Nguyen NEW YORK -- On Apr 2, 2020, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo passed a budget bill that included a controversial change to the state’s bail law. Since Jan. 1, 2020, the New York state bail ...

April 06, 2020
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Philadelphia District Attorney and Public Defender’s Offices Work toward Reducing Population of Incarcerated

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|Date: April 06, 2020
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Philadelphia District Attorney and Public Defender’s Offices Work toward Reducing Population of Incarcerated

By Lea Barrios PHILADELPHIA - District Attorney Larry Krasner and Public Defender Keir Bradford-Grey rele ...

By Lea Barrios PHILADELPHIA - District Attorney Larry Krasner and Public Defender Keir Bradford-Grey released a statement in Philadelphia urging courts to reevaluate sentences for release to prevent t ...

April 06, 2020
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Times are tough, support the Vanguard Fund Drive

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 05, 2020
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Times are tough, support the Vanguard Fund Drive

Dear Readers, Friends and Supporters, These, indeed, are challenging times for all of us who are “sociall ...

Dear Readers, Friends and Supporters, These, indeed, are challenging times for all of us who are “socially-distanced” – I am writing this, for instance, from in front of my laptop at home, and commun ...

April 05, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: Dunning Starts to Weigh in on Aggie Research Campus

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|Date: April 05, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: Dunning Starts to Weigh in on Aggie Research Campus

It is interesting—and frankly kind of nice—to see that Bob Dunning on Friday and Sunday this week has wad ...

It is interesting—and frankly kind of nice—to see that Bob Dunning on Friday and Sunday this week has waded into the issue of Aggie Research Campus. This coming week’s council meeting deals almost ex ...

April 05, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: California Has Led the Way on the Response to COVID-19

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 05, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: California Has Led the Way on the Response to COVID-19

California so far has avoided the fate of Italy, Spain and New York. Why? Social distancing and aggress ...

California so far has avoided the fate of Italy, Spain and New York. Why? Social distancing and aggressive stay-at-home orders. Three weeks ago, California counties stunned, really the world, by ord ...

April 05, 2020
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National Lawyers Guild Opposes Cities’ Move to Stop Providing Records because of COVID-19

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|Date: April 05, 2020
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National Lawyers Guild Opposes Cities’ Move to Stop Providing Records because of COVID-19

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – Cities in California – claiming they ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – Cities in California – claiming they are already bogged down with the cost of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic – are now urging the go ...

April 05, 2020
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Health Council COVID-19 Summary – 4/2/20

Posted by Tia Will
|Date: April 05, 2020
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Health Council COVID-19 Summary – 4/2/20

by Tia Will Assuming that most of you will not read the minutes of the first remotely held meeting of the ...

by Tia Will Assuming that most of you will not read the minutes of the first remotely held meeting of the Yolo Country Health Council, I thought it might be useful for a brief summary of how our count ...

April 05, 2020
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Council Lays Out Public Participation Process during COVID-19 Response

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 04, 2020
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Council Lays Out Public Participation Process during COVID-19 Response

When the council met just under two weeks ago using a Zoom format, the meeting was disrupted by a series ...

When the council met just under two weeks ago using a Zoom format, the meeting was disrupted by a series of vulgar and at times racist comments and commenters, to the point where the city shut down ve ...

April 04, 2020
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Sacramento Public Defender Asks Appeal Court to Intervene, Release County Jail Inmates because of COVID-19 Threat

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|Date: April 04, 2020
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Sacramento Public Defender Asks Appeal Court to Intervene, Release County Jail Inmates because of COVID-19 Threat

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – In what could be described as a bold, ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – In what could be described as a bold, desperate attempt, the Sacramento County Public Defenders Office has filed an “emergency reque ...

April 04, 2020
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Video Arraignments Continue in Sacramento Court; Sanitation Practices Still Being Tested

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|Date: April 04, 2020
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Video Arraignments Continue in Sacramento Court; Sanitation Practices Still Being Tested

By Ryan Kaika Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – “This hearing is being conducted remotely through t ...

By Ryan Kaika Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – “This hearing is being conducted remotely through the interactive video conferencing app Zoom,” judges said aloud on camera from the mostly empty ...

April 04, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Voices Warning Trump about COVID-19 in Prisons Are Growing Louder

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|Date: April 04, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Voices Warning Trump about COVID-19 in Prisons Are Growing Louder

There are no good reasons for the president to keep vulnerable people behind bars any longer. By Jay Will ...

There are no good reasons for the president to keep vulnerable people behind bars any longer. By Jay Willis In the weeks before the United States became the global leader in confirmed cases of COVID-1 ...

April 04, 2020
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City Announces Nishi Development Appeal Withdrawn; Ruling in Favor of City Stands

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 03, 2020
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City Announces Nishi Development Appeal Withdrawn; Ruling in Favor of City Stands

The city has formally announced what the Vanguard reported two weeks ago—the appeal of the Yolo Superior ...

The city has formally announced what the Vanguard reported two weeks ago—the appeal of the Yolo Superior Court decision regarding the Nishi project has been withdrawn. The case is now concluded. Accor ...

April 03, 2020
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Brooklyn DA Discusses Rikers Island, Calls for Releases

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 03, 2020
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Brooklyn DA Discusses Rikers Island, Calls for Releases

The latest news out of New York is grim, but the situation on Rikers Island is grim with soap and space i ...

The latest news out of New York is grim, but the situation on Rikers Island is grim with soap and space in short supply, and, as of Thursday evening, according to one media account, at least 231 incar ...

April 03, 2020
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California Supreme Court Affirms LA Court Decision in Capital Case

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|Date: April 03, 2020
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California Supreme Court Affirms LA Court Decision in Capital Case

By Nancy Martinez and Juan Garcia Urrutia LOS ANGELES - On April 2, 2020, the Supreme Court of California ...

By Nancy Martinez and Juan Garcia Urrutia LOS ANGELES - On April 2, 2020, the Supreme Court of California affirmed the decision of the trial court in the case against James Michael Fayed. The trial co ...

April 03, 2020
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NY Senate Corrections Chair Addresses Measures Taken to Protect Incarcerated People Amid COVID-19 Crisis

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|Date: April 03, 2020
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NY Senate Corrections Chair Addresses Measures Taken to Protect Incarcerated People Amid COVID-19 Crisis

By Linh Nguyen NEW YORK-- With over 100 positive cases of COVID-19 in prison facilities in New York state ...

By Linh Nguyen NEW YORK-- With over 100 positive cases of COVID-19 in prison facilities in New York state, there are concerns that not enough is being done to protect incarcerated persons and guards i ...

April 03, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 56 – Duke Wrongful Conviction Clinic Discusses Ronnie Long

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 03, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 56 – Duke Wrongful Conviction Clinic Discusses Ronnie Long

Ronnie Long has served nearly 44 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He was arrested in 1976 o ...

Ronnie Long has served nearly 44 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He was arrested in 1976 on trespass charges, charged and later convicted of rape, sentenced to 80 years and has been in ...

April 03, 2020
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