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Monday Morning Thoughts: Reisig This Isn’t (Just) About You

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 29, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Reisig This Isn’t (Just) About You

When Public Defender Tracie Olson pointed out, quite correctly, that in the Yolo County Jail on April 20, ...

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 population of just 3 percen ...

June 29, 2020
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My View: DA Reisig Cannot Let This One Go, Doubles Down on Attack on Public Defender

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 27, 2020
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My View: DA Reisig Cannot Let This One Go, Doubles Down on Attack on Public Defender

You would think Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig would have learned and simply let this go. He was roundly cri ...

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 Public Defender Tracie Olson w ...

June 27, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: What We Wish Yolo District Attorney Jeff Reisig Had Written…

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 21, 2020
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Guest Commentary: What We Wish Yolo District Attorney Jeff Reisig Had Written…

Yolo County Public Defender Tracie Olson’s recent interview raised some very challenging questions for ou ...

Yolo County Public Defender Tracie Olson’s recent interview raised some very challenging questions for our local justice system—including how police, prosecutors and even judges contribute to the over ...

June 21, 2020
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Yolo Maintains Zero Bail Schedule after Judicial Council Ends It Statewide

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 19, 2020
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Yolo Maintains Zero Bail Schedule after Judicial Council Ends It Statewide

Last week the California Judicial Council—over the strenuous objection of reformers and public defenders ...

Last week the California Judicial Council—over the strenuous objection of reformers and public defenders across the state—ended the emergency bail schedule, or zero bail. But on Wednesday, Yolo Count ...

June 19, 2020
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Commentary: The DA – He Doth Protest Too Much

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 17, 2020
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Commentary: The DA – He Doth Protest Too Much

Last Monday all across the state and around the nation, public defenders took to the streets marching for ...

Last Monday all across the state and around the nation, public defenders took to the streets marching for Black lives. Following that event, ABC 10 interviewed Yolo County Public Defender Tracie Olso ...

June 17, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Yolo DA Attacks Public Defender over Claims of Disproportionate Incarcerated Black Population

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 16, 2020
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Yolo DA Attacks Public Defender over Claims of Disproportionate Incarcerated Black Population

It started as an interview by ABC10 following the public defender Black Lives Matter march last Monday. D ...

It started as an interview by ABC10 following the public defender Black Lives Matter march last Monday. During the interview, Yolo County Public Defender Tracie Olson told the news station, “Honestly ...

June 16, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Judicial Council Considers Ending Emergency Bail Schedule

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 10, 2020
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Judicial Council Considers Ending Emergency Bail Schedule

The Judicial Council of California is considering ending its temporary emergency rules governing the emer ...

The Judicial Council of California is considering ending its temporary emergency rules governing the emergency bail schedule. The move comes as California begins a phased re-opening and the courts ar ...

June 10, 2020
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Commentary: Another Example of the Media Failing to Do Its Job

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 22, 2020
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Commentary: Another Example of the Media Failing to Do Its Job

One of the continuing themes that has been ramped up in California and indeed across the country is the ...

One of the continuing themes that has been ramped up in California and indeed across the country is the push back by traditional law and order DAs and sheriffs on COVID-based releases from jails and ...

May 22, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Yolo DA Continues to Present Anecdotes on Zero Bail

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 17, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: Yolo DA Continues to Present Anecdotes on Zero Bail

Every time the Yolo County DA has put out a press release on someone committing a new crime after being r ...

Every time the Yolo County DA has put out a press release on someone committing a new crime after being released, they have failed to put the story in proper context. Nowhere do they let the media or ...

May 17, 2020
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Commentary: Yolo DA Continues to Cherrypick Bad Cases

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 14, 2020
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Commentary: Yolo DA Continues to Cherrypick Bad Cases

by David Greenwald Data rather than anecdotes should be driving public policy decisions during this COVID ...

by David Greenwald Data rather than anecdotes should be driving public policy decisions during this COVID-19 crisis. And yet, what we have seen from the Yolo County District Attorney, in the form of ...

May 14, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Should Shaun Moore Have Been Released?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 03, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: Should Shaun Moore Have Been Released?

by David Greenwald It was a bizarre case to begin with. Shaun Moore, 40, made headlines locally when h ...

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 a Davis hospital. He is facin ...

May 03, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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What Happens When People Released Due to COVID-19 Concerns Commit New Crimes?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 27, 2020
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What Happens When People Released Due to COVID-19 Concerns Commit New Crimes?

Sheriffs and Traditional DAs Point to Individual Cases to Show Crimes Committed by Releasees; Reformers A ...

Sheriffs and Traditional DAs Point to Individual Cases to Show Crimes Committed by Releasees; Reformers Argue Overall Recidivism Rate Is Lower for Early Releases In the days and weeks immediately foll ...

April 27, 2020
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My View: Reisig and Lopez Stand against Zero Bail and Jail Releases

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 25, 2020
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My View: Reisig and Lopez Stand against Zero Bail and Jail Releases

This week, the Yolo County DA’s Office put out a release on a man in Woodland, released due to the emerge ...

This week, the Yolo County DA’s Office put out a release on a man in Woodland, released due to the emergency provisions, but who allegedly committed auto theft after being released. The man found hims ...

April 25, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Yolo DA Blames Homeless Crisis on Prop 47

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 24, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Yolo DA Blames Homeless Crisis on Prop 47

On Facebook last Friday, the Yolo County DA posted from a Fox-LA article which cited Dr. Drew Pinsky call ...

On Facebook last Friday, the Yolo County DA posted from a Fox-LA article which cited Dr. Drew Pinsky calling Prop. 47 “murder” and calling on lawmakers “to modify legislation enabling mental illness c ...

February 24, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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My View: 1437 Exposes Just How Out of Step Yolo DA Actually Is

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 25, 2020
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My View: 1437 Exposes Just How Out of Step Yolo DA Actually Is

It is a DA’s office that has long tried to claim the mantle of progressiveness, even though the DA was cl ...

It is a DA’s office that has long tried to claim the mantle of progressiveness, even though the DA was clearly outflanked and nearly defeated by a far more progressive alternative in 2018. Somehow bo ...

January 25, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Why Don’t We Have a Sentence Review Unit?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 15, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Why Don’t We Have a Sentence Review Unit?

On Monday, Ajay Dev's case will be back in Judge Janene Beronio's Yolo County courtroom. As most who have ...

On Monday, Ajay Dev's case will be back in Judge Janene Beronio's Yolo County courtroom. As most who have read these pages for any length of time know, I have long believed that Ajay Dev was wrongly c ...

December 15, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Letter: Endorsements and Criminal Justice Reform

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: December 05, 2019
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Letter: Endorsements and Criminal Justice Reform

By Elizabeth Lasensky (Editor’s note: the writer notes that this was submitted to the Enterprise and not ...

By Elizabeth Lasensky (Editor’s note: the writer notes that this was submitted to the Enterprise and not printed in the paper). Yes, endorsements do matter because they attempt to sway public opinion. ...

December 05, 2019
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Commentary: Once Again Showing Why Yolo DA Reisig Is NOT a Progressive

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 27, 2019
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Commentary: Once Again Showing Why Yolo DA Reisig Is NOT a Progressive

During the campaign for Yolo County District Attorney in 2018 that Jeff Reisig won by a surprisingly narr ...

During the campaign for Yolo County District Attorney in 2018 that Jeff Reisig won by a surprisingly narrow margin, he and his supporters played up the progressive achievements of the district attorne ...

November 27, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Zero Is the Number Freed by Conviction Integrity Units Here

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 14, 2019
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Commentary: Zero Is the Number Freed by Conviction Integrity Units Here

According to an article this week in the Washington Post, there are now 49 conviction review units in DA ...

According to an article this week in the Washington Post, there are now 49 conviction review units in DA offices across the US – most of those started in the last five years. The Washington Post on Tu ...

November 14, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: DA Reisig, Dunning Respond to Letter on Provenza Race; Reisig Gets A Lot Wrong Here

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 11, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: DA Reisig, Dunning Respond to Letter on Provenza Race; Reisig Gets A Lot Wrong Here

Last week the Vanguard published a letter from about 40 citizens questioning the endorsement by Jeff Reis ...

Last week the Vanguard published a letter from about 40 citizens questioning the endorsement by Jeff Reisig of Jim Provenza. The response was interesting – a lot of pushback. A lot of claims that thi ...

November 11, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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