By Nickolas Kwok and Julian Verdon KANSAS – A law enforcement officer attempted to shed some light here Tuesday by recounting his investigation of Dana Chandler during da...
Currently the state law only requires a very minimal standard of peace officers being 18 years of age and having a high school degree or test equivalent. Departments are...
By Ruby Chavez SACRAMENTO – CA Gov. Gavin Newsom Tuesday nominated Judge Truc T. Do to serve as an Associate Justice of the Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division One—...
By Evie Sun SACRAMENTO – Having no adult criminal record didn’t help 19-year-old defendant Emmanuel Deloney here in Sacramento County Superior Court Monday—the court felt...
By Carlin Ross SACRAMENTO – Joseph Heinz maybe didn’t do the smart thing trying to outrun a police car, a helicopter and a canine unit. He admitted as much Monday in Sacr...
By Tanya Decendario FRESNO – Defendant David Honeycutt knew he made a mistake and literally paid for it here—several thousand dollars. Honeycutt faced his second of...
By Alana Bleimann and Dalia Bautista Rodriguez KANSAS – Day one of a virtual hearing began Monday in which attorneys made their opening statements in the case of pr...
By Jacob Vito One of San Francisco’s most unique and appealing traits has long been its city architecture’s eclectic nature. 100-year-old wooden townhouses can live mere...
By David M. Greenwald It was a close race, relatively speaking. The final gap was just under 1300 votes. Fifty-two percent voted no, but over 15,000 people voted for th...
By Özge Terzioğlu LOS ANGELES—Newly elected District Attorney George Gascón announced his immediate implementation of unprecedented reform to LA County’s policing policie...
The ongoing COVID pandemic has laid bare the massive gaps in internet connectivity at sufficient speeds for too many Californians. As more families have struggled to cond...
By Macy Lu BALTIMORE – Maryland’s State Attorney’s Office announced the creation of the new Sentencing Review Unit (SRU) Monday, tasked with reviewing “cases of cer...
By Linhchi Nguyen and Ramneet Singh SACRAMENTO – Maybe it’s Zoom livestreamed hearings that have sometimes made it more difficult for judges and defendants to communicate...
By Dalia Bautista Rodriguez SACRAMENTO – It didn’t take much to bind two defendants—Dante Miller and Darrel Hodges—over for trial on possession of ammunition and firearms...
By Evie Sun SACRAMENTO – Having no real criminal record benefited defendant Tajia Thelusma here in Sacramento County Superior Court, Dept. 60 Friday—as a result, Judge La...
By Kianna Anvari SACRAMENTO — “I see voices and I hear things,” in-custody defendant Timothy Harrington shouted out during the prosecution’s remarks Friday in Sacramento...
By Zohd Khan DAVIS — During a public hearing held at the Dec. 1 city council meeting, Assistant City Manager Ashley Feeney encouraged the council to renew the Down...
By Hannah Skepner SACRAMENTO – Only one case out of 19 originally set for Judge Helen Gweon’s department here in Sacramento County Superior Court this past Friday m...
By Julian Verdon and Kalani E. Gaines SACRAMENTO – As if there are not enough problems with virtually all COVID-influenced court procedures in Sacramento County Superior...
By Julietta Bisharyan, Nick Gardner and Jaskiran Soomal Incarcerated Narratives San Quentin (SQ) has confirmed 2,238 positive cases and twenty-eight deaths thus f...