By Julietta Bisharyan FRESNO – A woman was sentenced for slashing her boyfriend in the face, chest and back with a knife while he was asleep in their home in Fresno...
By Shellsea Lomeli FRESNO, CA – Two alleged victims of domestic abuse here last week in Fresno County Superior Court begged the court to not prosecute those accused of ab...
When Public Defender Tracie Olson pointed out, quite correctly, that in the Yolo County Jail on April 20, 2020, the population was about 28 percent Black in a county with...
A bitter divorce and a bad experience in the family courts drove 55-year-old Susan Bassi to become an indepedent investigative reporter. She has a YouTube channel with o...
By Yuanqi Ivy Zhou SANTA CLARA – The Sixth Appellate Court has accepted the petition of appellant Malik Alaybue to vacate his murder and attempted murder convictions, con...
By Shellsea Lomeli SACRAMENTO, CA – The Sacramento County Superior Court resumed criminal jury trials about a week ago, but with new, never-before-seen health preca...
By Ayanna Gandhi SACRAMENTO – Three victims of serial sexual offender Jason Hook read their accounts of mistreatment by him in Sacramento County Superior Court late last...
By Mella Bettag SACRAMENTO – During the flurry of arraignments, sentencings, and continuances on the Sacramento County Superior Court Dept. 62 calendar, several defendant...
By Jeannette Parada FRESNO – Despite the shelter in place, and the lockdowns due to the coronavirus pandemic in California that began in mid-March, Superior Court J...
All week commenters on the Vanguard have been pressing me to acknowledge that protests during the time of COVID are inadvisable and against the advice of science. I get t...
Even before I read the column by Caroline Randall Williams in the NY Times yesterday, I was sold on the need to tear all of the confederate statues down—or at least put t...
Real justice and safety for Black communities will require a complete overhaul of the prosecutor-police relationship. By Somil Trivedi Just one month ago, the world saw a...
By Heather Hamilton SACRAMENTO – Sacramento Assistant Public Defender Ashley Burg’s multi-tasking representation of her clients here last Monday afternoon brought some sm...
By Ruby Wilks SACRAMENTO — After entering pleas of not guilty on counts of stalking, possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, and unlawful possession of controlled...
By Henry Stiepleman SACRAMENTO – A Sacramento man may have attempted to avoid trial by hiring six separate attorneys and failing to appear at his own trial. Dorrell Bolto...
By Angelina Caplanis FRESNO – The victim in a domestic violence case, wife of defendant Diamond Ramirez, appeared before Judge Glenda Allen-Hill to ask for a modifi...
You would think Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig would have learned and simply let this go. He was roundly criticized for making personal a comment on the news by Yolo County...
Davis: It has been a long and time a contentious process, but on Tuesday, the council will get to weigh in on the DISC (Davis Innovation & Sustainability Campus) proj...
Last July, DA Jaime Esparaza announced he would not seek reelection after serving 28 years. In 2016, Yvonne Rosales, running as a reformer, narrowly lost to Esparaza. Ros...
By Anna Okada SACRAMENTO – In Sacramento County Superior Court here Thursday morning, as Assistant Public Defender Corey Thornhill explained that he was having trouble ge...