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Judges Agrees to Release Defendant without Bail after Knife Threat to Father

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: June 20, 2020
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Judges Agrees to Release Defendant without Bail after Knife Threat to Father

By Mella Bettag SACRAMENTO – At the beginning of his arraignment here in Sacramento County Superior Court ...

By Mella Bettag SACRAMENTO – At the beginning of his arraignment here in Sacramento County Superior Court this week, Dante Benton was faced with two possible futures—one where he’d be stuck in custody ...

June 20, 2020
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Yolo County Judge Cuts Bail by $25,000

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|Date: June 12, 2020
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Yolo County Judge Cuts Bail by $25,000

By Taric Mansour WOODLAND – Yolo County Superior Court Judge Peter Williams did a nice thing—kind of—here ...

By Taric Mansour WOODLAND – Yolo County Superior Court Judge Peter Williams did a nice thing—kind of—here in Superior Court. He didn’t release a defendant on zero bail who threatened to kill a man ove ...

June 12, 2020
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High Bail for Man Who Assaulted Mom, Great-Grandfather

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|Date: June 08, 2020
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High Bail for Man Who Assaulted Mom, Great-Grandfather

By Ariella Seidman-Parra SACRAMENTO - A man suffering from mental illness who has been in and out of resi ...

By Ariella Seidman-Parra SACRAMENTO - A man suffering from mental illness who has been in and out of residential treatments since high school and has assaulted two of his family members—his mother and ...

June 08, 2020
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Man Dives Out of Moving Car, Attempts to ‘Buy’ Freedom – Judge Sets June Trial

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 17, 2020
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Man Dives Out of Moving Car, Attempts to ‘Buy’ Freedom – Judge Sets June Trial

By Armando Alonzo SACRAMENTO - Tyrell Cousins tried to buy his escape when he fled from police last May, ...

By Armando Alonzo SACRAMENTO - Tyrell Cousins tried to buy his escape when he fled from police last May, but his money wasn’t good enough and he was arrested, after diving out of a moving, stolen car, ...

May 17, 2020
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Road Rage Incident Leads to Assault/Stabbing Charge; Man Dives Out of Moving Car, Attempts to ‘Buy’ Freedom – Judge Sets June Trial

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|Date: May 16, 2020
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Road Rage Incident Leads to Assault/Stabbing Charge; Man Dives Out of Moving Car, Attempts to ‘Buy’ Freedom – Judge Sets June Trial

Road Rage Incident Leads to Assault/Stabbing Charge By Armando Alonzo SACRAMENTO - In-custody defendant X ...

Road Rage Incident Leads to Assault/Stabbing Charge By Armando Alonzo SACRAMENTO - In-custody defendant Xavier Alston plead no contest to an assault charge on a victim he allegedly punched after the o ...

May 16, 2020
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Man Self-Sabotages Case, Gets $1 Million Bail for Entering a Residential Home and for His Behavior in Court

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|Date: April 22, 2020
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Man Self-Sabotages Case, Gets $1 Million Bail for Entering a Residential Home and for His Behavior in Court

By Lea Barrios SACRAMENTO-A man charged with burglary proclaimed his innocence and repeatedly spoke over ...

By Lea Barrios SACRAMENTO-A man charged with burglary proclaimed his innocence and repeatedly spoke over the judge when he was asked for his consent to do his arraignment remotely here in the Sacramen ...

April 22, 2020
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Man Almost Denied Bail after Allegedly Stealing a Potential COVID-19 Sample and Abandoning It near a Pharmacy

Posted by Danielle Silva
|Date: April 16, 2020
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Man Almost Denied Bail after Allegedly Stealing a Potential COVID-19 Sample and Abandoning It near a Pharmacy

By Danielle Silva DAVIS, CA - A man was almost denied bail after being charged with stealing a COVID-19 s ...

By Danielle Silva DAVIS, CA - A man was almost denied bail after being charged with stealing a COVID-19 sample from Sutter Davis Hospital and impersonating a federal employee for the Centers for Disea ...

April 16, 2020
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$0 Bail Contested for Two Cases Considered ‘Public Safety Risks’

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|Date: April 15, 2020
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$0 Bail Contested for Two Cases Considered ‘Public Safety Risks’

By Lea Barrios SACRAMENTO, CA - Several arraignments ended with the defendant’s bail set to $0 with the e ...

By Lea Barrios SACRAMENTO, CA - Several arraignments ended with the defendant’s bail set to $0 with the exception of two cases where the defendants had been deemed a public safety risk. Due to the Cal ...

April 15, 2020
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Sacramento Judge Schedules Releases for the Majority of Incarcerated People over Zoom Court Hearings

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|Date: April 15, 2020
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Sacramento Judge Schedules Releases for the Majority of Incarcerated People over Zoom Court Hearings

By Julietta Bisharyan SACRAMENTO – With the switch to virtual courtrooms, the Sacramento County Superior ...

By Julietta Bisharyan SACRAMENTO – With the switch to virtual courtrooms, the Sacramento County Superior Court has been releasing more incarcerated people amid the coronavirus pandemic in an attempt t ...

April 15, 2020
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State Judicial Council Drops Bail to Zero for Most in Move to Blunt COVID-19

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|Date: April 07, 2020
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State Judicial Council Drops Bail to Zero for Most in Move to Blunt COVID-19

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – Progressive reforms sought for decade ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – Progressive reforms sought for decades – the dissolution of bail to minimize the number of incarcerated in jails, and consideration ...

April 07, 2020
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Reaction to the Judicial Council Reducing Bail to Zero

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 07, 2020
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Reaction to the Judicial Council Reducing Bail to Zero

It was a highly anticipated move by the California Judicial Council and while we captured some reaction f ...

It was a highly anticipated move by the California Judicial Council and while we captured some reaction from across the state – but interestingly enough, other than Jackie Lacey, a DA facing a runoff ...

April 07, 2020
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Philadelphia DA Announces Safety Measures against COVID-19, Including Exploring Release Options with the Public Defender

Posted by Danielle Silva
|Date: March 17, 2020
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Philadelphia DA Announces Safety Measures against COVID-19, Including Exploring Release Options with the Public Defender

By Danielle Silva On March 16, 2020, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner announced guidelines th ...

By Danielle Silva On March 16, 2020, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner announced guidelines that the District Attorney’s Office will be pursuing in response to the coronavirus pandemic, inc ...

March 17, 2020
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Self-Defense from Sexual Battery or Vicious Assault? Judge Raises Bail in Yolo Attempted Murder Case

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 04, 2020
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Self-Defense from Sexual Battery or Vicious Assault? Judge Raises Bail in Yolo Attempted Murder Case

A woman and her fiancé were at a bar in West Sacramento when the woman was allegedly sexually accosted by ...

A woman and her fiancé were at a bar in West Sacramento when the woman was allegedly sexually accosted by two older males. That led to a lengthy confrontation, a vicious assault and now attempted mur ...

March 04, 2020
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Assessment Tools That Decide the Fate of Pretrial Incarceration Are Now Denounced by Pretrial Justice Institute

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: February 27, 2020
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Assessment Tools That Decide the Fate of Pretrial Incarceration Are Now Denounced by Pretrial Justice Institute

By Brittany Mason The Pretrial Justice Institute has changed their stance on pretrial risk assessment too ...

By Brittany Mason The Pretrial Justice Institute has changed their stance on pretrial risk assessment tools justly equating whether the accused in criminal court should be incarcerated while standing ...

February 27, 2020
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Man Granted Bail in Defense against Gang Members

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: September 30, 2019
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Man Granted Bail in Defense against Gang Members

By Hannah Grayson San Francisco - The defendant was in custody, but not the gang members. In a preliminar ...

By Hannah Grayson San Francisco - The defendant was in custody, but not the gang members. In a preliminary hearing on Friday morning in Department 9, the defense attorney argued this scenario was a mi ...

September 30, 2019
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Community Activist Not Allowed Bail in Homicide Case

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: September 19, 2019
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Community Activist Not Allowed Bail in Homicide Case

By Hannah Grayson Judge Christine Van Aken thought the charges alone were too serious to let him bail out ...

By Hannah Grayson Judge Christine Van Aken thought the charges alone were too serious to let him bail out despite the argument of of self-defense. A man was not granted bail, without any examination, ...

September 19, 2019
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America’s Pretrial System Is Broken

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: April 06, 2019
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America’s Pretrial System Is Broken

By Andrea Woods and Portia Allen-Kyle Every year, millions of people are arrested, required to pay money ...

By Andrea Woods and Portia Allen-Kyle Every year, millions of people are arrested, required to pay money bail they cannot afford, separated from their families and loved ones, or subjected to long per ...

April 06, 2019
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Tragic Death and the Criminal Injustice of Our Bail System

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|Date: March 16, 2017
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Tragic Death and the Criminal Injustice of Our Bail System

By Udi Ofer Over the last two weeks, Americans have revisited the tragic details of the death of 22-year- ...

By Udi Ofer Over the last two weeks, Americans have revisited the tragic details of the death of 22-year-old Kalief Browder. The documentary series “Time: The Kalief Browder Story,” airs its third of ...

March 16, 2017
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Sunday Commentary: $1 Million Bail Remains Unfair in Hate Crime Case

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 05, 2017
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Sunday Commentary: $1 Million Bail Remains Unfair in Hate Crime Case

How to handle the matter of Lauren Kirk-Coehlo was always going to be a difficult call. On the one hand, ...

How to handle the matter of Lauren Kirk-Coehlo was always going to be a difficult call. On the one hand, according to declarations from the police detective and Deputy District Attorney Ryan Couzens, ...

March 05, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: $1 Million Bail is Inappropriate in the Hate Crime Case

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 26, 2017
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Sunday Commentary: $1 Million Bail is Inappropriate in the Hate Crime Case

Before I get into my argument, there are a few points I would like to make. First, I have actually gone ...

Before I get into my argument, there are a few points I would like to make. First, I have actually gone back and forth on this issue. When I first heard of the $1 million bail in this case, I though ...

February 26, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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