Eighty-nine pastors and ministers and rabbis wrote a letter to Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Sen. Josh Hawley saying their attacks on St....
By Linh Nguyen SACRAMENTO – In an amicus curiae brief, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general in support of a lawsuit that...
By Nick Gardner SAN FRANCISCO– San Francisco Mayor London Breed has teamed up with Public Defender Manu Raju to create the San Francisco Young Defenders Program, a...
By Lauren Smith WASHINGTON D.C. – After spending 28 years wrongly convicted of and imprisoned for murder, the exoneration of Santae Tribble in 2012 sparked a review and i...
By Mella Bettag SACRAMENTO – In Valentyn Stepanov’s preliminary hearing this Monday, Judge Delbert W. Oros was not a friend of the defense. In fact, he denied every motio...
By Jose Medina WOODLAND – Minh Quang Ly was called in for an arraignment hearing in Yolo County Superior Court, Department 1, last Friday—but an ever-increasing snafu bro...
By Larkin White Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and Outcomes As of August 2, the recent outbreak in Santa Rita Jail appears to be subsiding, in sync with a decrease in new daily...
(Dashboard updates daily M-F) By Julietta Bisharyan & Mella Bettag CDCR Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and Outcomes As of July 31, there are a total of 8,096...
It was two years ago that Larry Guenther ran for the first time, finishing in the middle of the pack, fifth in a nine person race where the top two vote-getters were seat...
The Davis Police Department received a series of complaints from a Davis resident about the way in which the department handled complaints in an assault/vandalism investi...
In the last two months, we have seen people across the country take to the streets to demand an end to police brutality and ask for accountability. However, California i...
By Josué Monroy SACRAMENTO – A Sacramento County Superior Court judge admonished the prosecution for presenting a flawed case, based on “shoddy” police work and questiona...
By Angelina Caplanis SACRAMENTO – A defendant in Sacramento County Superior Court here last Friday for probation violations tried to explain to a judge that there should...
By Ryan Oh, Josue Monroy, Stephanie Don and Evelyn Valerio FRESNO – In Fresno County Superior Court, judges have been more accommodating to defendants’ circumstances as a...
By Hannah Skepner FRESNO – A victim begged Judge Glenda Allen-Hill to drop all charges against her husband, Christopher Wilcox, here Friday in the Fresno County Superior...
By Nick Domenici FRESNO – A defendant here in Sacramento County Superior Court late last week who was about to be released after serving six months for domestic violence,...
UPDATE ON OUR FUNDRAISER With COVID, we have now moved the event to Zoom. Mark Godsey will appear at 6 pm Pacific Time. The event is open to anyone who wishes to attend....
As someone who drives downtown to work every day—even now—I have a lot of frustration with the way things were handled by the city and the community with regard to paid p...
For the last few weeks we have heard an excuse as to why federal agents had to be moved into Portland. But people on the ground said something very different—that things...
“Looking back” will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist at The Westchester Guardian, which encompass topics that are app...
