By Julian Navarro SACRAMENTO – Chang D. Vang had a long list of charges he was facing – from vehicle theft to violating a restraining order – when he was sentenced here i...
By Jess Taylor DAVIS – Last Friday night, the Chancellor’s Colloquium introduced two of the most prominent screenwriters in the country – UC Davis Alumni Chris Mark...
Dear readers – it’s been one weird and unprecedented year. We are taking our annual break and will return on Monday with the latest news and commentary. Hav...
By Madison Forwood DAVIS — On Friday Nov. 20, Mayor Gloria Partida had a public discussion with chief editor of the Davis Vanguard, David Greenwald, via Zoom. The...
By David M. Greenwald Christopher Cabaldon has been Mayor of West Sacramento for the better part of two decades, having been first elected in 2004 and become one of the d...
The Rittenhouse case raises particularly pointed questions about what we are really talking about when we talk about bail. By Cori Bush Somewhere in America, right now, a...
By Evie Sun and Cailin Garcia MANHATTAN, NY — Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST) hosted a webinar over Zoom and Facebook live to discuss mass incarceration and...
By Tanya Decendario WOODLAND – COVID-19 raised its ugly head again, this time in the form of state judicial council pandemic orders that one defense attorney here in Yolo...
By Ramneet Singh and Linhchi Nguyen SACRAMENTO – Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Patrick Marlette called out a robbery suspect here last Friday for deliberat...
By Alana Bleimann SACRAMENTO – Judge Shelleyanne W.L. Chang reprimanded defendant Shawn Larkin Monday for making a “mockery” of her courtroom and the procedures of...
By Julian Verdon SACRAMENTO – A violent confrontation between two neighbors escalated into an altercation involving knives, a sword, a baton, and a gun, according t...
By Jose Medina SACRAMENTO – Defendant Jamaal Gooding—who shot someone heckling him at a McDonald’s restaurant five year years ago on Halloween—was hoping something good w...
By Özge Terzioğlu SACRAMENTO – A contrast in outcomes in two cases in one Sacramento County Superior Court Department Monday – one arson defendant was sent to a state fac...
By Carlin Ross SACRAMENTO – A deputy district attorney did everything she could here Monday to consolidate minor misdemeanor cases involving a homeless mother with childr...
By Kelly Moran SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin discussed his office’s filing of homicide charges against former SF Police Dept. officer Chris...
By Gabriella Garcia and Sabrina Williams Secretary of State Trump Administration Mike Pompeo is the current Secretary of State, sworn in April of 2018 by President Donald...
By Emily Dill DAVIS — The Temporary Joint Subcommittee presented and discussed their final recommendations on public safety for City Council during their Nov. 18 me...
By David M. Greenwald A Reuters article painted a scary picture—rural areas, large swaths of voters refusing to believe that Joe Biden won the presidency, some willing to...
While the advent of DNA testing and the Innocence Project pushed wrongful convictions into the mainstream consciousness, there was important work done on wrongful convict...
By Ruby Chavez SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco District Attorney Chelsea Boudin last Friday announced that the San Francisco DA’s office’s website has posted a comprehensiv...