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Appellate Court Upholds SB 1391, Allows Juvenile Law Prohibiting Adult Court for 14- and 15-Year-Olds

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 03, 2019
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Appellate Court Upholds SB 1391, Allows Juvenile Law Prohibiting Adult Court for 14- and 15-Year-Olds

In October, former Governor Jerry Brown signed into law, SB 1391 which prohibits 14- and 15-year-olds fro ...

In October, former Governor Jerry Brown signed into law, SB 1391 which prohibits 14- and 15-year-olds from being tried as adults in criminal court and subsequently sent to adult prison. The bill rever ...

May 03, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Prosecutorial Oversight Lacking in Yolo County

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 22, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Prosecutorial Oversight Lacking in Yolo County

Last week we saw at the state level a shining example of how even a liberal attorney general is not suffi ...

Last week we saw at the state level a shining example of how even a liberal attorney general is not sufficient to produce proper oversight. In the Orange County jailhouse informant scandal, a case th ...

April 22, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Reisig’s Defense of the Death Penalty Belies Claims of Progressive Reform

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 18, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Reisig’s Defense of the Death Penalty Belies Claims of Progressive Reform

In last year’s election for district attorney, challenged as he never has been before, Jeff Reisig, the Y ...

In last year’s election for district attorney, challenged as he never has been before, Jeff Reisig, the Yolo County District Attorney since 2007, struck back with the help of a local editorial, claimi ...

March 18, 2019
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Reaction Pours Out to Gavin Newsom’s Moratorium on the Death Penalty

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 14, 2019
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Reaction Pours Out to Gavin Newsom’s Moratorium on the Death Penalty

In his announcement on the moratorium, Governor Gavin Newsom framed the issue as a personal journey roote ...

In his announcement on the moratorium, Governor Gavin Newsom framed the issue as a personal journey rooted not just in the immorality of the death penalty, but also in the idea that there are people o ...

March 14, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: A New Era of Reform DA’s Began This Week

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 06, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: A New Era of Reform DA’s Began This Week

This week I had an interesting conversation with a man who had lost in an effort to put a progressive DA ...

This week I had an interesting conversation with a man who had lost in an effort to put a progressive DA in an adjacent county this past year. His comment to me after talking about the Yolo Coun ...

January 06, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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2018 in Review: The Near Upset in the District Attorney’s Race

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 01, 2019
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2018 in Review: The Near Upset in the District Attorney’s Race

In the fall of 2017, veteran Deputy District Attorney Larry Eichele announced he was going to run against ...

In the fall of 2017, veteran Deputy District Attorney Larry Eichele announced he was going to run against his boss for District Attorney. It was a contest that did not last very long as Mr. Eichele, ...

January 01, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Should Sheriff’s and DA’s Be Elected Positions?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 18, 2018
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Commentary: Should Sheriff’s and DA’s Be Elected Positions?

The recent saga with Sacramento Sheriff Scott Jones and the inability of the Sacramento Board of Supervis ...

The recent saga with Sacramento Sheriff Scott Jones and the inability of the Sacramento Board of Supervisors to reign him in is another reminder that perhaps we ought to question the wisdom of electin ...

December 18, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: There’s a Wave of Progressive Prosecutors, but We’ve Been Left Behind

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 16, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: There’s a Wave of Progressive Prosecutors, but We’ve Been Left Behind

Despite a closer than expected election back in June in Yolo County, the hope for progressive reform rema ...

Despite a closer than expected election back in June in Yolo County, the hope for progressive reform remains elusive. This past week there was an op-ed in the New York Times, “There’s a Wave of New P ...

December 16, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Down Goes Another DA

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 10, 2018
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My View: Down Goes Another DA

There are just four district attorneys in California that have opposed every criminal justice reform effo ...

There are just four district attorneys in California that have opposed every criminal justice reform effort – Mike Ramos of San Bernardino, Tony Rackauckas of Orange County, Anne Marie Schubert of Sac ...

November 10, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Grijalva Case Really Was Open and Shut and the Question Remains – Why Reisig Prosecuted This At All?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 27, 2018
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My View: Grijalva Case Really Was Open and Shut and the Question Remains – Why Reisig Prosecuted This At All?

From the beginning, people skeptical of our coverage asked what we were missing with respect to the prose ...

From the beginning, people skeptical of our coverage asked what we were missing with respect to the prosecution of Maria Grijalva. That was answered this week on Thursday when the DA’s office did wha ...

October 27, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: DA Prosecuting Grijalva under Code Section that Should Have Been Invalidated by Citizens United

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 14, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: DA Prosecuting Grijalva under Code Section that Should Have Been Invalidated by Citizens United

DA Sets Up An Interesting Legal Battle If They Prosecute Grijalva This week, the DA sent out a press rele ...

DA Sets Up An Interesting Legal Battle If They Prosecute Grijalva This week, the DA sent out a press release clarifying the prosecution of Maria Grijalva for campaign-related violations. As they spel ...

October 14, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Yolo DA Files Criminal Complaint against Grijalva for Alleged Campaign Violations

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 10, 2018
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Yolo DA Files Criminal Complaint against Grijalva for Alleged Campaign Violations

Last month, the Vanguard reported that the Yolo County DA had subpoenaed campaign records of Maria Grijal ...

Last month, the Vanguard reported that the Yolo County DA had subpoenaed campaign records of Maria Grijalva, a major donor to the Dean Johansson campaign. On Tuesday, the DA sent out a press release ...

October 10, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Does Juvenile Reform Bill Go Too Far? Depends on Whom You Ask

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 05, 2018
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Commentary: Does Juvenile Reform Bill Go Too Far? Depends on Whom You Ask

Governor Brown just signed SB 1391 over the weekend. The timing is interesting, because Daniel Marsh's h ...

Governor Brown just signed SB 1391 over the weekend. The timing is interesting, because Daniel Marsh's hearing about whether he should be transferred to juvenile court under Proposition 57 began on M ...

October 05, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Governor Brown Signs Bill Ending Sentencing of 14- and 15-Year-Olds in Adult Court

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 02, 2018
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Governor Brown Signs Bill Ending Sentencing of 14- and 15-Year-Olds in Adult Court

One of the big questions surrounding the signing of SB 1391 is what that will mean for convicted killer D ...

One of the big questions surrounding the signing of SB 1391 is what that will mean for convicted killer Daniel Marsh, who is currently having his transfer matter heard in a Yolo County courtroom after ...

October 02, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Marsh Is the Extreme Example of Juvenile Crime; This Is More Typical

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 24, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Marsh Is the Extreme Example of Juvenile Crime; This Is More Typical

On January 24, 2011, a white male in his twenties, a musician in a band, was walking home at 10:30 pm on ...

On January 24, 2011, a white male in his twenties, a musician in a band, was walking home at 10:30 pm on a Monday night in West Sacramento. He was stopped by a person in a Michael Jordan jersey who a ...

September 24, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Reisig Pushes Back against Reform while Yolo Leads the Way on Juvenile Prosecutions as Adults

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 22, 2018
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Reisig Pushes Back against Reform while Yolo Leads the Way on Juvenile Prosecutions as Adults

DA Jeff Reisig has been pushing back on Senate Bill 1391, and he has enlisted the family of Daniel Marsh' ...

DA Jeff Reisig has been pushing back on Senate Bill 1391, and he has enlisted the family of Daniel Marsh's victims to help. They believe if Governor Brown signs the legislation on his desk, that mean ...

September 22, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Yolo PD: Prop 47 Offering Solutions to Homelessness

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: September 06, 2018
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Yolo PD: Prop 47 Offering Solutions to Homelessness

Proposition (Prop) 47 has been blamed for a lot of problems, the most recent being a purported “explosion ...

Proposition (Prop) 47 has been blamed for a lot of problems, the most recent being a purported “explosion of homelessness” in Woodland, as recently reported by District Attorney Jeff Reisig. By Traci ...

September 06, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: Reisig Blames the Homeless Problem on Prop. 47

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 02, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: Reisig Blames the Homeless Problem on Prop. 47

During the campaign, it was pointed out time and again the disconnect between the voters of Yolo County, ...

During the campaign, it was pointed out time and again the disconnect between the voters of Yolo County, who overwhelmingly supported most reforms, and the positions of DA Jeff Reisig, who opposed ref ...

September 02, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Analysis: How the Picnic Day Incident Completely Changed the City of Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 28, 2018
| (16) Comments

Analysis: How the Picnic Day Incident Completely Changed the City of Davis

We are coming up on the one year anniversary of the resolution of the Picnic Day criminal matter. At tim ...

We are coming up on the one year anniversary of the resolution of the Picnic Day criminal matter. At times, it is easy to overstate the impact of one event – especially one that one is in the middle ...

August 28, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: A Way Forward for Criminal Justice Reform If the DA Wants It

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 22, 2018
| (9) Comments

Commentary: A Way Forward for Criminal Justice Reform If the DA Wants It

This week, the Vanguard column, supported by information from across the country, created a bit of a stir ...

This week, the Vanguard column, supported by information from across the country, created a bit of a stir with correspondence coming in locally. Looking at Philadelphia as a model for criminal justic ...

August 22, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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