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Black Boys Aren’t “Wolf Packs” and Abusive Prosecutors Aren’t “Lone Wolves”

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|Date: June 19, 2019
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Black Boys Aren’t “Wolf Packs” and Abusive Prosecutors Aren’t “Lone Wolves”

By Somil Trivedi and Nusrat Choudhury Ava Duvernay’s new miniseries, When They See Us, retells the harrow ...

By Somil Trivedi and Nusrat Choudhury Ava Duvernay’s new miniseries, When They See Us, retells the harrowing story of the five Black and Latinx boys wrongfully imprisoned for the rape and near murder ...

June 19, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Death Penalty, Media Coverage and the Court Watch

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|Date: June 17, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Death Penalty, Media Coverage and the Court Watch

A friend and reader pointed me over the weekend to a column from Nicholas Kristof entitled, “When We Kill ...

A friend and reader pointed me over the weekend to a column from Nicholas Kristof entitled, “When We Kill.” The author argues, “Everything you think you know about the death penalty is wrong,” and th ...

June 17, 2019
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Linda Fairstein Is Canceled. Is ‘Law & Order’ Culture Next?

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|Date: June 17, 2019
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Linda Fairstein Is Canceled. Is ‘Law & Order’ Culture Next?

By the Appeal “I had stared at death before. I was way too familiar with the vagaries of murder.” So begi ...

By the Appeal “I had stared at death before. I was way too familiar with the vagaries of murder.” So begins “Deadfall,” a novel written by celebrity prosecutor Linda Fairstein. She continues: “I had s ...

June 17, 2019
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Trump Border Czar Will Continue the Administration’s Cruel Border Policies

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|Date: June 15, 2019
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Trump Border Czar Will Continue the Administration’s Cruel Border Policies

By Brian Tashman President Trump announced today that former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) di ...

By Brian Tashman President Trump announced today that former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director Thomas Homan will return to his administration as “border czar,” a new post he described ...

June 15, 2019
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Sacramento DA Thursday Blinks, and Dodges Expected Political Trial Over Columbus Statue at Capitol

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|Date: June 14, 2019
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Sacramento DA Thursday Blinks, and Dodges Expected Political Trial Over Columbus Statue at Capitol

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The Sacramento County District Attorney Off ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The Sacramento County District Attorney Office blinked first Thursday, dismissing all charges almost literally on the day of the trial of ...

June 14, 2019
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A New Wave of Prosecutorial Transparency

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|Date: June 13, 2019
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A New Wave of Prosecutorial Transparency

By the Appeal It should be news to no one that prosecutors are supremely powerful and have played an outs ...

By the Appeal It should be news to no one that prosecutors are supremely powerful and have played an outsize role in mass incarceration, but what can be done? Until the public knows what prosecutors a ...

June 13, 2019
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Taxpayers, Not Cops, Shell Out $5.2 Million in Record Sacramento Excessive Force Case

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|Date: June 12, 2019
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Taxpayers, Not Cops, Shell Out $5.2 Million in Record Sacramento Excessive Force Case

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – City of Sacramento taxpayers – not the poli ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – City of Sacramento taxpayers – not the police who kill and maim – have shelled out millions of dollars in excessive force lawsuits in the ...

June 12, 2019
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ACLU Sues Overall Removal of Polling Place in First Amendment Dispute over Black Lives Matter Banner

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|Date: June 11, 2019
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ACLU Sues Overall Removal of Polling Place in First Amendment Dispute over Black Lives Matter Banner

Registrar Violated Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno's First Amendment Rights (From Press Release) ...

Registrar Violated Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno's First Amendment Rights (From Press Release) — The ACLU Foundation of Northern California today filed a lawsuit against Fresno County's chie ...

June 11, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Four Cases from SF to Sac Illustrate the State of the Injustice System

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|Date: June 10, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Four Cases from SF to Sac Illustrate the State of the Injustice System

The Vanguard is now covering cases from San Francisco to Sacramento and we find injustice across the boar ...

The Vanguard is now covering cases from San Francisco to Sacramento and we find injustice across the board. In San Francisco, we have been covering the case of Antonio Carter Bibbs accused of molestin ...

June 10, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Power Outages the New Normal?

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|Date: June 09, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Power Outages the New Normal?

California Wildfires There we were on Friday evening and suddenly the news is reporting that areas of Yol ...

California Wildfires There we were on Friday evening and suddenly the news is reporting that areas of Yolo County – specifically Winters and Davis – could have the power turned off on Saturday morning ...

June 09, 2019
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Harvard Was Wrong to Dismiss Its Dean for Representing Harvey Weinstein

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|Date: June 09, 2019
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Harvard Was Wrong to Dismiss Its Dean for Representing Harvey Weinstein

By David Cole and Carol Rose Last month, Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana announced that Ronald Sulliv ...

By David Cole and Carol Rose Last month, Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana announced that Ronald Sullivan, a professor in the law school, would no longer serve as faculty dean of Winthrop House, a r ...

June 09, 2019
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Public Defender Seeks Proof Dirty Cops Lied, and Traffic Stop Brutalized Black Family

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|Date: June 07, 2019
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Public Defender Seeks Proof Dirty Cops Lied, and Traffic Stop Brutalized Black Family

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – There may, or may not be, a dirty cop behin ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – There may, or may not be, a dirty cop behind a simple traffic stop of a Black driver and his family that turned into a police dragnet with ...

June 07, 2019
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Alarm Sounded on Face Surveillance-Enabled Body Cameras in California

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|Date: June 07, 2019
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Alarm Sounded on Face Surveillance-Enabled Body Cameras in California

Diverse coalition announces support for AB 1215: The Body Camera Accountability Act (From Press Release)– ...

Diverse coalition announces support for AB 1215: The Body Camera Accountability Act (From Press Release)–Today, the ACLU of California and a diverse coalition of civil rights, racial justice, and digi ...

June 07, 2019
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Guest Commentary: America’s Public Defenders’ Offices Are Broken. Here’s How to Fix Them

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|Date: June 06, 2019
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Guest Commentary: America’s Public Defenders’ Offices Are Broken. Here’s How to Fix Them

By Kamala Harris As a former prosecutor and attorney general of California, I saw our legal system at its ...

By Kamala Harris As a former prosecutor and attorney general of California, I saw our legal system at its best when we pursued justice and stood up for victims of murder, rape, and other serious crime ...

June 06, 2019
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Political Trials for Nazi Fighters, Poor People Advocates Slated in June in Sacramento

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|Date: June 05, 2019
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Political Trials for Nazi Fighters, Poor People Advocates Slated in June in Sacramento

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – June – and maybe part of July – is shaping ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – June – and maybe part of July – is shaping up to be a month or so of political trials in Sacramento, as anti-Nazi protestors and poor peop ...

June 05, 2019
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The Hypocrisy of William Barr’s Spying Claims

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|Date: June 04, 2019
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The Hypocrisy of William Barr’s Spying Claims

By Ashley Gorski Discussing the origins of the FBI’s Russia investigation, Attorney General William Barr ...

By Ashley Gorski Discussing the origins of the FBI’s Russia investigation, Attorney General William Barr recently claimed that “Government power was used to spy on American citizens.” He went on to sa ...

June 04, 2019
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Sacramento Police Dept Receives ‘F’ Grade in California Police Scoreboard, Ranks 66 in State

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|Date: June 02, 2019
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Sacramento Police Dept Receives ‘F’ Grade in California Police Scoreboard, Ranks 66 in State

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – In a just-released “California Police Score ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – In a just-released “California Police Scoreboard” – said to be the first-ever evaluation police violence and accountability of the state’s ...

June 02, 2019
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Federal Lawsuit Filed after Suffocation Death at Sacramento County Jail – Deputies and CHP to Blame, Claims Suit

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|Date: May 28, 2019
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Federal Lawsuit Filed after Suffocation Death at Sacramento County Jail – Deputies and CHP to Blame, Claims Suit

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Sacramento County Sheriff Deputies and Cali ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Sacramento County Sheriff Deputies and California Highway Patrol officers hogtied an unarmed man at the county jail and then, although the ...

May 28, 2019
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Court Says No to Trump Wall… for Now

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|Date: May 28, 2019
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Court Says No to Trump Wall… for Now

By Dror Ladin From the beginning of his campaign for president, Donald Trump claimed that he was going to ...

By Dror Ladin From the beginning of his campaign for president, Donald Trump claimed that he was going to build a wall along the southern border. He said “nobody builds walls better than me.” He said ...

May 28, 2019
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DHS is Locking Immigrants in Solitary Confinement

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|Date: May 27, 2019
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DHS is Locking Immigrants in Solitary Confinement

By Naureen Shah In 2012, I visited the federal supermax prison ADX Florence in Colorado and spoke with me ...

By Naureen Shah In 2012, I visited the federal supermax prison ADX Florence in Colorado and spoke with men living in solitary confinement. I listened closely to their stories of anguish, but I could n ...

May 27, 2019
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