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COURT WATCH: Judge Wants to Cut Deal Now, but Lawyers on Both Sides State Issues with Accused’s History of Schizophrenia

Posted by Audrey Sawyer
|Date: October 11, 2023
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COURT WATCH: Judge Wants to Cut Deal Now, but Lawyers on Both Sides State Issues with Accused’s History of Schizophrenia

By Audrey Sawyer MODESTO, CA - A 2021 case involving a man accused of annoying misconduct with a child (c ...

By Audrey Sawyer MODESTO, CA - A 2021 case involving a man accused of annoying misconduct with a child (considered a misdemeanor) was the subject of a hearing this week, and the possibility of the acc ...

October 11, 2023
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Preventing False Confessions: Illinois Legislation Advocates for Lawyers to Be Present during All Police Interrogations of Minors

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: September 10, 2023
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Preventing False Confessions: Illinois Legislation Advocates for Lawyers to Be Present during All Police Interrogations of Minors

By Avery Redula SPRINGFIELD, IL – Lawmakers in Illinois are promoting a bill that would require lawyers t ...

By Avery Redula SPRINGFIELD, IL – Lawmakers in Illinois are promoting a bill that would require lawyers to be present for all police interrogations of minors under 18, regardless of the crime. Current ...

September 10, 2023
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Letter from a Mother Whose Son is Battling Mental Illness

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 30, 2021
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Letter from a Mother Whose Son is Battling Mental Illness

On Wednesday, San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin hosted a summit on behavioral health issues. Prior to the pa ...

On Wednesday, San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin hosted a summit on behavioral health issues. Prior to the panel that is covered in a separate article, he read a letter from a mother. Chesa Boudin: This i ...

July 30, 2021
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Great Risk, Little Reward: Berkeley’s RAs Keep Housing Units Afloat Amid Pandemic

Posted by Koda Slingluff
|Date: March 12, 2021
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Great Risk, Little Reward: Berkeley’s RAs Keep Housing Units Afloat Amid Pandemic

By Meenu Pamula Berkeley— Dissatisfaction is not uncommon amongst UC Berkeley’s Resident Assistants (RA ...

By Meenu Pamula Berkeley— Dissatisfaction is not uncommon amongst UC Berkeley’s Resident Assistants (RAs), but in light of the coronavirus pandemic, mistreatment has become an even more present conc ...

March 12, 2021
| by Koda Slingluff

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Judge Sends ‘Guilty’ Defendant to State Hospital Rather Than Pursue $70 Theft Trial

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: January 13, 2021
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Judge Sends ‘Guilty’ Defendant to State Hospital Rather Than Pursue $70 Theft Trial

by Hannah Blome SACRAMENTO – Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Geoffrey Goodman Monday found a man w ...

by Hannah Blome SACRAMENTO – Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Geoffrey Goodman Monday found a man who stole about $70 worth of items from a grocery store likely guilty, but rather than set the c ...

January 13, 2021
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Davis High Student Almost Released to the Streets by Mental Health Hospital

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 08, 2018
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Davis High Student Almost Released to the Streets by Mental Health Hospital

On Friday as the world was about to enter the New Year’s Day three-day weekend, just after 5 pm the Vangu ...

On Friday as the world was about to enter the New Year’s Day three-day weekend, just after 5 pm the Vanguard received a frantic call from Kristin, the mother of an 18-year-old Davis High School studen ...

January 08, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Avoiding Arguments and Power Struggles with Your Kids

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 05, 2015
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Avoiding Arguments and Power Struggles with Your Kids

By David Hafter, MFT I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume that I am not the only parent who ever ...

By David Hafter, MFT I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume that I am not the only parent who ever engaged in or got caught in a power struggle with his or her child. You, too? Alright then, ma ...

August 05, 2015
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COURT WATCH: Judge Wants to Cut Deal Now, but Lawyers on Both Sides State Issues with Accused’s History of Schizophrenia

COURT WATCH: Judge Wants to Cut Deal Now, but Lawyers on Both Sides State Issues with Accused’s History of Schizophrenia

Preventing False Confessions: Illinois Legislation Advocates for Lawyers to Be Present during All Police Interrogations of Minors

Preventing False Confessions: Illinois Legislation Advocates for Lawyers to Be Present during All Police Interrogations of Minors

Letter from a Mother Whose Son is Battling Mental Illness

Letter from a Mother Whose Son is Battling Mental Illness

Judge Sends ‘Guilty’ Defendant to State Hospital Rather Than Pursue $70 Theft Trial

Judge Sends ‘Guilty’ Defendant to State Hospital Rather Than Pursue $70 Theft Trial

Avoiding Arguments and Power Struggles with Your Kids

Avoiding Arguments and Power Struggles with Your Kids

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