By Linh Nguyen The California Second District Court of Appeal heard an appeal in which two defendants were denied resentencing under Senate Bill 1437 and section 1170.95...
By Julietta Bisharyan SACRAMENTO – In the Sacramento County Superior Court, the judge denied a defendant reduced bail and release based on his multiple counts of vi...
By Lea Barrios SACRAMENTO – A man – unidentified because the Zoom live stream was unintelligible at the time – was allegedly found with illegal firearms...
I have been a bit surprised that the fiscal analysis by EPS is not generating more pushback. However, what becomes pretty clear is that the reason that the numbers shift...
For the last several weeks we have heard from people in the community complaining—rightly that the city and council circumvented the public process on BrightNight. Befor...
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – It’s rare, but a defendant in Sacramento County Superior Court refused to have her preliminary hearing...
Matt Toporowski is running for DA in Albany, NY. A current defense attorney and former prosecutor, he is challenging the incumbent DA in the Democratic primary, scheduled...
by Lisa Rea On March 27th, RJI issued a press statement on covid-19 urging justice systems globally to respond to the extreme public health threat of covid-19 by addressi...
By Linh Nguyen Confusion over the interpretation of Emergency Rule 4, which establishes a statewide Emergency Bail Schedule, was addressed as petitioners challenge the co...
By Stefanie Young SACRAMENTO, CA – On May 1, 2020, the defendant, Javier Cobian Davalos, accepted a plea agreement which required him to plead no contest to a stalk...
By Julietta Bisharyan SACRAMENTO- With the switch to virtual courtrooms in response to COVID-19, the Sacramento County Superior Court faces increasing communication issue...
By Dan Ramos As one of the partners behind the Aggie Research Campus (ARC), I’ve been proud since its inception of our vision for the project and the benefits it would...
by David Greenwald It was a bizarre case to begin with. Shaun Moore, 40, made headlines locally when he was arrested for allegedly stealing a COVID-19 test sample from...
by Don Shor We had a guy come in yesterday, walk right past the signs that say face covering required, walk up to the window and start asking questions. My staff person p...
There were protests on Friday where large numbers of people pressed for the government to allow the economy to reopen. More subtly, the Bee reported yesterday that rural...
The state is sending virus-positive people to Angola prison—but those numbers aren’t reported on the Department of Corrections’ website. By Jerry Lannelli Over 100 incarc...
When the City of Davis passed Measure J, now 20 years ago, in 2000, it became one of the city’s seminal land use measures that requires a vote of the citizens in order fo...
Even before this week, Yolo County’s bench seemed out of step with the rest of the state. For the last 13 years, according to various media sources, California’s bench h...
Media coverage out of Sacramento and Orange Counties showed large crowds, many of them outside without masks and social distancing. We know that people from past protest...
By Kat Kerli originally published by UC Davis News Americans drove drastically less, saved millions of metric tons of greenhouse gases, and, in some states, lost millio...