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Supervisors False-Start Again on Police Accountability

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|Date: November 20, 2019
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Supervisors False-Start Again on Police Accountability

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – Moving fast is often a good thing – but when y ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – Moving fast is often a good thing – but when you’re Sacramento County Supervisor Patrick Kennedy and you’re dealing with an ultra-sensitive s ...

November 20, 2019
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Judge Rules against Claim that Sacramento County Jury Pool Is Racially Biased

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|Date: November 19, 2019
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Judge Rules against Claim that Sacramento County Jury Pool Is Racially Biased

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – An unusual, if not somewhat unique, defense ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – An unusual, if not somewhat unique, defense challenge to the makeup of Sacramento County juries – specifically, that they racially discrim ...

November 19, 2019
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The Way Forward against Death by Incarceration in Pennsylvania

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|Date: November 19, 2019
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The Way Forward against Death by Incarceration in Pennsylvania

by Vaidya Gullapalli Yesterday, the Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board looked at two overlapping injus ...

by Vaidya Gullapalli Yesterday, the Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board looked at two overlapping injustices in Pennsylvania: the large number of people sentenced to die in prison and the use of thi ...

November 19, 2019
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Rep. Ayanna Pressley Unveils Sweeping Plan to Reshape American Criminal Legal System

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|Date: November 17, 2019
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Rep. Ayanna Pressley Unveils Sweeping Plan to Reshape American Criminal Legal System

Under the proposal, localities would be incentivized to significantly decrease prison populations. By Kir ...

Under the proposal, localities would be incentivized to significantly decrease prison populations. By Kira Lerner Democratic Representative Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts unveiled a sweeping resolut ...

November 17, 2019
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Gold Chains: The Hidden History of Slavery in California

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|Date: November 17, 2019
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Gold Chains: The Hidden History of Slavery in California

By Candice Francis There is a story we tell ourselves about being American. Much of it is a lie. Two date ...

By Candice Francis There is a story we tell ourselves about being American. Much of it is a lie. Two dates that students throughout the country are required to memorize to inform an American identity ...

November 17, 2019
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Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Has Granted Rodney Reed an Indefinite Stay of Execution

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|Date: November 16, 2019
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Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Has Granted Rodney Reed an Indefinite Stay of Execution

(From Press Release – Innocence Project) On Friday, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously vo ...

(From Press Release – Innocence Project) On Friday, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously voted in favor of a 120-day reprieve of Rodney Reed’s execution. Now, the decision lies with Gove ...

November 16, 2019
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Anti-Fascists Claim Victory with Slap on Wrist after Facing Major Felonies

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|Date: November 15, 2019
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Anti-Fascists Claim Victory with Slap on Wrist after Facing Major Felonies

Three Year Old Case Started With a “Bloody” Capitol Clash with White Supremacists By Crescenzo Vellucci V ...

Three Year Old Case Started With a “Bloody” Capitol Clash with White Supremacists By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – At about 10:26 a.m. Thursday, a very, very slow march to ...

November 15, 2019
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Guest Commentary: What’s Wrong with Corporate Democrats?

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|Date: November 14, 2019
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Guest Commentary: What’s Wrong with Corporate Democrats?

by Mark Dempsey "I don't care who people vote for as long as I can pick the candidates" -- William M. "Bo ...

by Mark Dempsey "I don't care who people vote for as long as I can pick the candidates" -- William M. "Boss" Tweed My friend David decried a candidate primarying our local Congressman, Ami Bera. I sai ...

November 14, 2019
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Overpolicing on Public Transit

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|Date: November 14, 2019
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Overpolicing on Public Transit

By Sarah Lustbader “I never thought that selling corn could lead to my being torn from my family and near ...

By Sarah Lustbader “I never thought that selling corn could lead to my being torn from my family and nearly deported” In a video posted on Twitter on Friday, a small woman with a pushcart full of chur ...

November 14, 2019
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Judge Declares Mistrial in Stockton Cop Killing Case after Jury Deadlocks

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|Date: November 13, 2019
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Judge Declares Mistrial in Stockton Cop Killing Case after Jury Deadlocks

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – The judge in a federal civil rights trial here ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – The judge in a federal civil rights trial here of two Stockton police officers who killed a 16-year-old special needs teen nearly 10 years ag ...

November 13, 2019
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Sac County Court Trials on Hold after Elevator Snafu

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|Date: November 13, 2019
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Sac County Court Trials on Hold after Elevator Snafu

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – Tuesday, the day after a Monday Veteran’s Day ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – Tuesday, the day after a Monday Veteran’s Day holiday, there were no less than eight homicide and attempted murder trials, with a sprinkling ...

November 13, 2019
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A Crisis for Indigent Defense in Massachusetts

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|Date: November 12, 2019
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A Crisis for Indigent Defense in Massachusetts

By Vaidya Gullapalli Fifteen years ago, people arrested and charged in Hampden County, Massachusetts, but ...

By Vaidya Gullapalli Fifteen years ago, people arrested and charged in Hampden County, Massachusetts, but unable to afford representation, were jailed pretrial with no lawyers to represent them. The c ...

November 12, 2019
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Chesa Boudin Talks about His Victory in San Francisco

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|Date: November 11, 2019
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Chesa Boudin Talks about His Victory in San Francisco

It remains unclear as to when exactly Chesa Boudin, the public defender who knocked off challenger Suzy L ...

It remains unclear as to when exactly Chesa Boudin, the public defender who knocked off challenger Suzy Loftus and two other candidates in a very tight race last week in San Francisco, will become San ...

November 11, 2019
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Federal Jury Deliberates If Police Used Excessive Force in Shooting Death of Special Needs Teen Driving Stolen Van

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|Date: November 11, 2019
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Federal Jury Deliberates If Police Used Excessive Force in Shooting Death of Special Needs Teen Driving Stolen Van

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – Civil rights attorney John Burris didn’t bothe ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – Civil rights attorney John Burris didn’t bother to mince words in his closing arguments for the family of a 16-year-old special needs teen ki ...

November 11, 2019
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Boudin Takes Victory in SF DA Race

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|Date: November 10, 2019
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Boudin Takes Victory in SF DA Race

By Danielle Silva With only 1,200 votes left to count, Chesa Boudin receives a narrow win over interim di ...

By Danielle Silva With only 1,200 votes left to count, Chesa Boudin receives a narrow win over interim district attorney Suzy Loftus in the San Francisco District Attorney race. As of yesterday, Boudi ...

November 10, 2019
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Finding Home after Paradise Burned

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|Date: November 10, 2019
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Finding Home after Paradise Burned

by Nick Buxton Just before dawn this last Friday (November 8), Carol Dyer climbed into her car and headed ...

by Nick Buxton Just before dawn this last Friday (November 8), Carol Dyer climbed into her car and headed two hours north to see what was left of a home she had left in a panic exactly a year earlier. ...

November 10, 2019
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Guest Commentary: SF’s Failed ‘War on Drugs’ Needs Innovation to Transform the Status Quo

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|Date: November 09, 2019
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Guest Commentary: SF’s Failed ‘War on Drugs’ Needs Innovation to Transform the Status Quo

by Hadi Razzaq San Francisco has historically responded to street-level drug activity in the same way: pe ...

by Hadi Razzaq San Francisco has historically responded to street-level drug activity in the same way: periodically cracking down on low-level drug sellers by ramping up policing. But arresting and im ...

November 09, 2019
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Police Use of Force Experts in Federal Civil Rights Trial Disagree on Stockton Officers’ Decision to Kill Teen

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|Date: November 08, 2019
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Police Use of Force Experts in Federal Civil Rights Trial Disagree on Stockton Officers’ Decision to Kill Teen

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – A day after one police procedures expert empha ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – A day after one police procedures expert emphatically maintained Stockton police officers made a “tactical error” by shooting and killing all ...

November 08, 2019
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Defining Prison Abolitionism in a Time of Progressive Prosecutors

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|Date: November 08, 2019
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Defining Prison Abolitionism in a Time of Progressive Prosecutors

By Danielle Silva In a time where progressive prosecutors are becoming a national movement, several organ ...

By Danielle Silva In a time where progressive prosecutors are becoming a national movement, several organizations came together to create a document outlining abolitionist principles and strategies ti ...

November 08, 2019
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DAY 3: Police Procedures Expert Testifies in Shooting that Killed Stockton Teen Was ‘Tactical Error’

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|Date: November 07, 2019
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DAY 3: Police Procedures Expert Testifies in Shooting that Killed Stockton Teen Was ‘Tactical Error’

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – Day Three in a U.S. District Court civil trial ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – Day Three in a U.S. District Court civil trial here Wednesday of Stockton city police officers who participated in the 2010 killing of 16-yea ...

November 07, 2019
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