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Commentary: Yolo County Opened Too Soon

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 09, 2020
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Commentary: Yolo County Opened Too Soon

Supervisor Jim Provenza yesterday posted the county update on COVID—I made the quick comment, “You guys o ...

Supervisor Jim Provenza yesterday posted the county update on COVID—I made the quick comment, “You guys opened too soon” and, while it got a bunch of likes on Facebook, Provenza himself offered no res ...

July 09, 2020
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Push To Restore Zero Bail in San Francisco Amid Growing Number of COVID-19 Cases in SF Jails

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|Date: July 09, 2020
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Push To Restore Zero Bail in San Francisco Amid Growing Number of COVID-19 Cases in SF Jails

Up until the last month, Sa Francisco had managed its jail population better than most counties and avoid ...

Up until the last month, Sa Francisco had managed its jail population better than most counties and avoid large numbers of COVID cases in part because they managed to reduce the jail population. But ...

July 09, 2020
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COVID-19 FALLOUT: Xenophobic Policies May Harm More Than a Million International Students

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: July 09, 2020
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COVID-19 FALLOUT: Xenophobic Policies May Harm More Than a Million International Students

by Jess Taylor LOS ANGLES – COVID-19 continues to sweep through America, and so does, according to organ ...

by Jess Taylor LOS ANGLES – COVID-19 continues to sweep through America, and so does, according to organizations studying the issue, xenophobia—maybe because the public watched the virus shut down mu ...

July 09, 2020
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Case Management Conference Set to Address COVID-19 Cases in California State Prisons

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|Date: July 09, 2020
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Case Management Conference Set to Address COVID-19 Cases in California State Prisons

By Yuanqi Ivy Zhou SAN FRANCISCO – A U.S. Northern District judge formally announced a case management co ...

By Yuanqi Ivy Zhou SAN FRANCISCO – A U.S. Northern District judge formally announced a case management conference to discuss the rapid spread of COVID-19 in California state prisons, severely impactin ...

July 09, 2020
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History of Robberies Trumps COVID-19 Pandemic – Bail Hiked to $300,000

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: July 06, 2020
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History of Robberies Trumps COVID-19 Pandemic – Bail Hiked to $300,000

By: Dominique Kato SACRAMENTO – A history of robbery offenses trumped the threat of COVID-19 here in the ...

By: Dominique Kato SACRAMENTO – A history of robbery offenses trumped the threat of COVID-19 here in the Sacramento County Superior Court last Thursday just before the holiday break. Nineteen-year-old ...

July 06, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: A Study Finds That Protests Have Not Driven the Spike in COVID Cases

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 05, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: A Study Finds That Protests Have Not Driven the Spike in COVID Cases

Are we going to have another spike of COVID after this 4th of July weekend? Last week Capitol Public Radi ...

Are we going to have another spike of COVID after this 4th of July weekend? Last week Capitol Public Radio reported that public health officials believe that “the reopening of businesses in many Calif ...

July 05, 2020
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My View: Is CDCR Executing Incarcerated People at San Quentin by COVID?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 04, 2020
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My View: Is CDCR Executing Incarcerated People at San Quentin by COVID?

In March of 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom suspended the death penalty in California, arguing at the time, " ...

In March of 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom suspended the death penalty in California, arguing at the time, "Our death penalty system has been—by any measure—a failure." He wrote, "It has provided no publ ...

July 04, 2020
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State Supreme Court Asked to Intervene on Behalf of Inmates in Sacramento County Jails

Posted by Cres Vellucci
|Date: July 03, 2020
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State Supreme Court Asked to Intervene on Behalf of Inmates in Sacramento County Jails

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – The Sacramento County Public Defender ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – The Sacramento County Public Defender Office filed a nearly 400-page pleading document June 29 – made available exclusively to THE V ...

July 03, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Tragedy of COVID-19 in Prisons Shows Need for Decarceration

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 03, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Tragedy of COVID-19 in Prisons Shows Need for Decarceration

By Scott Colom and Miriam Aroni Krinsky As countless Americans take to the streets in defense of Black li ...

By Scott Colom and Miriam Aroni Krinsky As countless Americans take to the streets in defense of Black lives and call for the transformation of policing, we must not neglect the threat that COVID-19 c ...

July 03, 2020
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Public Defender Still Fighting to Free Brother from Arizona Jail

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 02, 2020
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Public Defender Still Fighting to Free Brother from Arizona Jail

Earlier this week the Arizona Court of Appeals ordered a new hearing for Neko Wilson, who has been fighti ...

Earlier this week the Arizona Court of Appeals ordered a new hearing for Neko Wilson, who has been fighting a marijuana charge for the last year since a California court released him after 10 years af ...

July 02, 2020
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Medical Expert Calls for Immediate Decarceration of San Quentin Prisoners

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: July 02, 2020
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Medical Expert Calls for Immediate Decarceration of San Quentin Prisoners

By Taric Mansour Incarcerated people in San Quentin are searching for answers, as overcrowding and poor o ...

By Taric Mansour Incarcerated people in San Quentin are searching for answers, as overcrowding and poor operating conditions continue to increase the risk of contracting the coronavirus. In response t ...

July 02, 2020
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SF Public Defender’s Office Mobilizing to Release People from San Quentin Amid Escalating COVID-19 Outbreak

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 02, 2020
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SF Public Defender’s Office Mobilizing to Release People from San Quentin Amid Escalating COVID-19 Outbreak

Special To the Vanguard With 2,582 incarcerated persons with active cases of COVID-19 in California pri ...

Special To the Vanguard With 2,582 incarcerated persons with active cases of COVID-19 in California prisons statewide, and over 1,100 people incarcerated in San Quentin testing positive, the San Fra ...

July 02, 2020
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SF Public Defender’s Brother Could Soon be Released from Jail After 11 Years, Following Arizona Court of Appeals Ruling

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 01, 2020
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SF Public Defender’s Brother Could Soon be Released from Jail After 11 Years, Following Arizona Court of Appeals Ruling

By Nikki Suzani ARIZONA – The brother of San Francisco Public Defender Jacque Wilson could well soon be r ...

By Nikki Suzani ARIZONA – The brother of San Francisco Public Defender Jacque Wilson could well soon be released from jail – after more than 11 years of incarceration of being held without bail follow ...

July 01, 2020
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‘New Normal’ Post COVID-19 Jury Trials Resume in Sacramento Superior Court

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: June 29, 2020
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‘New Normal’ Post COVID-19 Jury Trials Resume in Sacramento Superior Court

By Shellsea Lomeli SACRAMENTO, CA - The Sacramento County Superior Court resumed criminal jury trials abo ...

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 precautions after a nearly three-month su ...

June 29, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: It Really Is About Masks

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 28, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: It Really Is About Masks

All week commenters on the Vanguard have been pressing me to acknowledge that protests during the time of ...

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 the point they are making. The ...

June 28, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Defendant Refuses COVID-19 Test Multiple Times, Frustrating Sacramento Court

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: June 27, 2020
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Defendant Refuses COVID-19 Test Multiple Times, Frustrating Sacramento Court

By Shellsea Lomeli SACRAMENTO – The effect of COVID-19 on the California court system is evident—it’s red ...

By Shellsea Lomeli SACRAMENTO – The effect of COVID-19 on the California court system is evident—it’s reduced jail populations, and ended trials for months—and here, in-custody defendant John Kempker ...

June 27, 2020
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Progressive Prosecutor Panel Opines on COVID-19, Police Accountability, and Mass Incarceration

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: June 26, 2020
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Progressive Prosecutor Panel Opines on COVID-19, Police Accountability, and Mass Incarceration

By Angelina Caplanis NEW YORK – A panel here this week hosted by the Institute for Innovation in Prosecut ...

By Angelina Caplanis NEW YORK – A panel here this week hosted by the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution at John Jay College – spearheaded by Bay Area public defenders and San Francisco District A ...

June 26, 2020
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Rep. Pressley and D.A. Rollins Discuss ‘Structural Racism’ in the U.S.

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: June 26, 2020
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Rep. Pressley and D.A. Rollins Discuss ‘Structural Racism’ in the U.S.

By Anna Gorski SOMMERVILLE, MA – Structural Racism, and how it impacts health, public safety, education, ...

By Anna Gorski SOMMERVILLE, MA – Structural Racism, and how it impacts health, public safety, education, jobs, housing and other aspects of society, was the focus of panel discussion here featuring Co ...

June 26, 2020
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Sacramento County Jails Stipulate to Requiring Masks for Guards, Inmates

Posted by Cres Vellucci
|Date: June 25, 2020
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Sacramento County Jails Stipulate to Requiring Masks for Guards, Inmates

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – Sacramento County Sheriff’s Dept. dep ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – Sacramento County Sheriff’s Dept. deputies – THE VANGUARD has learned – are now being required to wear face coverings in county jail ...

June 25, 2020
| by Cres Vellucci

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San Quentin Cases Soaring at 344 Cases, Triggering Concern and Attention from Reformers

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 24, 2020
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San Quentin Cases Soaring at 344 Cases, Triggering Concern and Attention from Reformers

For much of the past week, the Vanguard through its Dashboard on CDCR COVID-19 cases has been tracking a ...

For much of the past week, the Vanguard through its Dashboard on CDCR COVID-19 cases has been tracking a startling and concerning rise of cases at San Quentin Prison. Yesterday, Aparna Komarla of the ...

June 24, 2020
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