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My View: Baltimore Prosecutor May Have Overcharged, But That’s What Prosecutors Do

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 09, 2015
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My View: Baltimore Prosecutor May Have Overcharged, But That’s What Prosecutors Do

This is the sixth year the Vanguard Court watch has covered the Yolo County Courts. In that time there ha ...

This is the sixth year the Vanguard Court watch has covered the Yolo County Courts. In that time there have been a lot of trials we have covered and prosecutions we have followed. While there have b ...

May 09, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Eye on the Courts: A Deputy Public Defender Discovers A Bombshell That Threatens to Bring Down the System

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 20, 2015
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Eye on the Courts: A Deputy Public Defender Discovers A Bombshell That Threatens to Bring Down the System

Last November, Orange County Deputy Public Defender Scott Sanders came to Yolo County to talk about his b ...

Last November, Orange County Deputy Public Defender Scott Sanders came to Yolo County to talk about his battle in Orange County against prosecutorial misconduct and Orange County. Since then, the case ...

April 20, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Eye on the Courts: Prosecutor Apologizes For Sending the Wrong Man to Death Row

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 23, 2015
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Eye on the Courts: Prosecutor Apologizes For Sending the Wrong Man to Death Row

At the outset, I recommend the readers read the full account of Attorney A.M. "Marty" Stroud III, of Shre ...

At the outset, I recommend the readers read the full account of Attorney A.M. "Marty" Stroud III, of Shreveport, who was the lead prosecutor in the December 1984 first-degree murder trial of Glenn For ...

March 23, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts II: Global Cooling, Prosecutorial Misconduct and More

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 09, 2015
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Monday Morning Thoughts II: Global Cooling, Prosecutorial Misconduct and More

Global Cooling One of the more interesting arguments I hear against Global Warming is that ‒ 40 years ago ...

Global Cooling One of the more interesting arguments I hear against Global Warming is that ‒ 40 years ago – at least some scientists believed that the earth was cooling. An April 28, 1975 Newsweek art ...

March 09, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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My View: State Bar Extracts Its Pound of Flesh From Parish

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 14, 2015
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My View: State Bar Extracts Its Pound of Flesh From Parish

We learned this week that the State Bar Court Review Department had reserved a ruling from a State Bar Co ...

We learned this week that the State Bar Court Review Department had reserved a ruling from a State Bar Court Hearing Department judge who found that former Yolo County Deputy DA Clinton Parish violate ...

February 14, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Eye on the Courts: The Year of Misconduct

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 29, 2014
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Eye on the Courts: The Year of Misconduct

When the Vanguard planned its Fourth Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony around the theme of prosecutorial ...

When the Vanguard planned its Fourth Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony around the theme of prosecutorial misconduct, we of course had little idea how big the issue of misconduct in general was going t ...

December 29, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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California Needs to Pass Law on Exculpatory Evidence

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 19, 2014
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California Needs to Pass Law on Exculpatory Evidence

By Barry Scheck and Laurie Levenson More than half a century ago, the Supreme Court established a rule th ...

By Barry Scheck and Laurie Levenson More than half a century ago, the Supreme Court established a rule that requires prosecutors to turn over to defense attorneys any evidence pointing to a defendant' ...

December 19, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Report: Conviction Integrity Units Form Vital Link For Reform Efforts

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 12, 2014
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Report: Conviction Integrity Units Form Vital Link For Reform Efforts

In October of this year, Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced that his office has created ...

In October of this year, Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced that his office has created “a Conviction Integrity Unit to review all post conviction assertions of innocence.” In the pre ...

December 12, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Speech at 2014 Dinner and Awards Ceremony on Prosecutorial Misconduct

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 16, 2014
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Speech at 2014 Dinner and Awards Ceremony on Prosecutorial Misconduct

The following was my speech on prosecutorial misconduct delivered last night at the Fourth Annual Vanguar ...

The following was my speech on prosecutorial misconduct delivered last night at the Fourth Annual Vanguard Dinner and Awards Ceremony. The problem of prosecutorial misconduct has not received nearly e ...

November 16, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Sponsors for the Vanguard Court Watch Dinner and Awards Ceremony

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 14, 2014
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Sponsors for the Vanguard Court Watch Dinner and Awards Ceremony

The Vanguard wishes to thank it's sponsors for the 4th Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony Event. Patron L ...

The Vanguard wishes to thank it's sponsors for the 4th Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony Event. Patron Level Sponsors: Vanguardian Level Sponsors: Tia Will Jean Miller Robb Davis Friend ...

November 14, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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TODAY JOIN US FOR THE Prosecutorial Misconduct Event – November 15

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 12, 2014
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TODAY JOIN US FOR THE Prosecutorial Misconduct Event – November 15

Join us on November 15, for a discussion on Prosecutorial Misconduct, featuring keynote speaker Scott San ...

Join us on November 15, for a discussion on Prosecutorial Misconduct, featuring keynote speaker Scott Sanders. Sanders is a deputy public defender in Orange County who has been fighting a case where p ...

November 12, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Motion Claims State’s Cheating Compels Court to Block Death Penalty

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 11, 2014
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Motion Claims State’s Cheating Compels Court to Block Death Penalty

Orange County Deputy Public Defender Scott Sanders, who will speak at the Vanguard’s event on Saturday, f ...

Orange County Deputy Public Defender Scott Sanders, who will speak at the Vanguard’s event on Saturday, filed a motion last week that indicates he has uncovered “additional efforts by the Orange Count ...

November 11, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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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
| by David Greenwald

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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
| by David Greenwald

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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
| by David Greenwald

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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
| by David Greenwald

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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
| by David Greenwald

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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
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Eye on the Courts: The Pernicious Specter of Prosecutorial Misconduct

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 11, 2014
| (2) Comments

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
| by David Greenwald

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