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Monday Morning Thoughts: New School Board Takes Shape, And the Week Ahead

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 10, 2014
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Monday Morning Thoughts: New School Board Takes Shape, And the Week Ahead

Last week we saw the election of three new school board members: Madhavi Sunder, Barbara Archer and Tom A ...

Last week we saw the election of three new school board members: Madhavi Sunder, Barbara Archer and Tom Adams. Coupled with the May appointment and October re-appointment of Alan Fernandes, 80 percent ...

November 10, 2014
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Keynote Speaker Fights Battle Against Prosecutorial Misconduct in Orange County Capital Murder Case

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 04, 2014
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Keynote Speaker Fights Battle Against Prosecutorial Misconduct in Orange County Capital Murder Case

Orange County Deputy Public Defender Scott Sanders acknowledges his client, Scott Dekraai, is guilty of b ...

Orange County Deputy Public Defender Scott Sanders acknowledges his client, Scott Dekraai, is guilty of being the shooter in a 2011 Seal Beach salon massacre. However, he alleges that the Orange Count ...

November 04, 2014
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Eye on the Courts: Will Yolo Convictions Integrity Unit Go Far Enough?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 13, 2014
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Eye on the Courts: Will Yolo Convictions Integrity Unit Go Far Enough?

In 2011, Maurice Caldwell came to speak at the Vanguard’s first Dinner and Awards Ceremony. He had just b ...

In 2011, Maurice Caldwell came to speak at the Vanguard’s first Dinner and Awards Ceremony. He had just been released from prison after serving nearly 20 years for a crime he did not commit. Not only ...

October 13, 2014
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Eye on the Courts: Case of Egregious Prosecutorial Misconduct

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 11, 2014
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Eye on the Courts: Case of Egregious Prosecutorial Misconduct

In its report entitled Preventable Error, the The Veritas Initiative, the research and policy arm of the ...

In its report entitled Preventable Error, the The Veritas Initiative, the research and policy arm of the Northern California Innocence Project (NCIP) at Santa Clara University School of Law, in examin ...

October 11, 2014
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Governor Signs Bill to Aid Wrongly Convicted, But Vetoes Ammiano’s Prosecutorial Misconduct Bill

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 02, 2014
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Governor Signs Bill to Aid Wrongly Convicted, But Vetoes Ammiano’s Prosecutorial Misconduct Bill

Late last week, Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 1058 into law. According to a release from the NCIP (Nor ...

Late last week, Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 1058 into law. According to a release from the NCIP (Northern California Innocence Project), the bill “will help exonerate innocent men and women who h ...

October 02, 2014
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Commentary: Are there Innocent People on Death Row?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 06, 2014
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Commentary: Are there Innocent People on Death Row?

“A North Carolina death row inmate exonerated by DNA evidence on Tuesday was once held up by Supreme Cour ...

“A North Carolina death row inmate exonerated by DNA evidence on Tuesday was once held up by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia as an example of someone who deserved to die,” reported the Huffington ...

September 06, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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New Evidence of Prosecutorial Misconduct Resulted in Likely Wrongful Execution Willingham

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 30, 2014
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New Evidence of Prosecutorial Misconduct Resulted in Likely Wrongful Execution Willingham

By the Innocence Project The newly formed criminal justice journalism group, The Marshall Project, broke ...

By the Innocence Project The newly formed criminal justice journalism group, The Marshall Project, broke a story in the Washington Post earlier this month revealing new allegations of prosecutorial mi ...

August 30, 2014
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Eye on the Courts: The Pernicious Specter of Prosecutorial Misconduct

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 11, 2014
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Eye on the Courts: The Pernicious Specter of Prosecutorial Misconduct

A ruling this last week in Orange County shows just how high the bar has been set for the determination o ...

A ruling this last week in Orange County shows just how high the bar has been set for the determination of prosecutorial misconduct. While the judge found ample evidence that there were improprieties ...

August 11, 2014
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Eye on the Courts: Lack of Transparency in the DA’s Office Should Trouble Us All

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 14, 2014
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Eye on the Courts: Lack of Transparency in the DA’s Office Should Trouble Us All

Last week, I was researching something for my column on the District Attorney’s Victims of Crime award ce ...

Last week, I was researching something for my column on the District Attorney’s Victims of Crime award ceremony when I stumbled upon something – I have been blocked from following District Attorney Je ...

April 14, 2014
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Cases Increase Exponentially at CA Mens Colony – 0-100 in 1-Week Period – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

Alameda County Jail’s COVID-19 Coverup – Quarantined Housing Units Released In Advance Without Explanation – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CA Jails

Fernandes Won’t Seek Re-Election Either – Three New Board Members Come December

Supreme Court Sides with California Jail on COVID Matter in Another 5-4 Decision

Guest Commentary: Enlarging the Discussion on ‘Defunding’

Emails Reveal ICE’s Refusal to Test People in Their Care – Judge Orders ICE to Provide Testing

Reimagining LA County: Taking $$ from Police to Transform Low-Income Communities

Iowa Governor Restores Right to Vote for Those Convicted of Felonies

Lawyer Convinces Defendant to Switch Plea in Preliminary Hearing

Caught, Defendant Waives Rights, Pleads Guilty to Possessing a Firearm

Monday Morning Thoughts: New School Board Takes Shape, And the Week Ahead

Monday Morning Thoughts: New School Board Takes Shape, And the Week Ahead

Keynote Speaker Fights Battle Against Prosecutorial Misconduct in Orange County Capital Murder Case

Keynote Speaker Fights Battle Against Prosecutorial Misconduct in Orange County Capital Murder Case

Eye on the Courts: Will Yolo Convictions Integrity Unit Go Far Enough?

Eye on the Courts: Will Yolo Convictions Integrity Unit Go Far Enough?

Eye on the Courts: Case of Egregious Prosecutorial Misconduct

Eye on the Courts: Case of Egregious Prosecutorial Misconduct

Governor Signs Bill to Aid Wrongly Convicted, But Vetoes Ammiano’s Prosecutorial Misconduct Bill

Governor Signs Bill to Aid Wrongly Convicted, But Vetoes Ammiano’s Prosecutorial Misconduct Bill

Commentary: Are there Innocent People on Death Row?

Commentary: Are there Innocent People on Death Row?

New Evidence of Prosecutorial Misconduct Resulted in Likely Wrongful Execution Willingham

New Evidence of Prosecutorial Misconduct Resulted in Likely Wrongful Execution Willingham

Eye on the Courts: The Pernicious Specter of Prosecutorial Misconduct

Eye on the Courts: The Pernicious Specter of Prosecutorial Misconduct

Eye on the Courts: Lack of Transparency in the DA’s Office Should Trouble Us All

Eye on the Courts: Lack of Transparency in the DA’s Office Should Trouble Us All

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