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San Francisco Ends Zero Bail Policy, Draws Criticism from DA and Public Defender

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 20, 2020
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San Francisco Ends Zero Bail Policy, Draws Criticism from DA and Public Defender

San Francisco, unlike other counties, made the decision to end the policy of zero bail during the COVID-1 ...

San Francisco, unlike other counties, made the decision to end the policy of zero bail during the COVID-19 pandemic. The zero-bail policy was designed to ensure that jail populations could be maintai ...

June 20, 2020
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Video Surfaces Showing SFPD Officer with Knee on Teenager’s Neck

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 02, 2020
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Video Surfaces Showing SFPD Officer with Knee on Teenager’s Neck

With the nation up in arms over the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, ...

With the nation up in arms over the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, a video emerged in San Francisco this weekend showing a SFPD officer using the same deadly tact ...

June 02, 2020
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SF District Attorney and Public Defender Unite to Release Incarcerated People Amidst COVID-19

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|Date: April 01, 2020
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SF District Attorney and Public Defender Unite to Release Incarcerated People Amidst COVID-19

By Lea Barrios SAN FRANCISCO--To prevent the spread of COVID-19, representatives from the San Francisco D ...

By Lea Barrios SAN FRANCISCO--To prevent the spread of COVID-19, representatives from the San Francisco District Attorney’s and Public Defender’s offices have written Gov. Gavin Newsom imploring the s ...

April 01, 2020
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Closing Arguments Delivered in Trial Concerning 7 Restraining Order Violations

Posted by Danielle Silva
|Date: March 10, 2020
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Closing Arguments Delivered in Trial Concerning 7 Restraining Order Violations

Man Charged With 7 Restraining Order Violations Sees Beginning of Closing Arguments By Danielle Silva SAN ...

Man Charged With 7 Restraining Order Violations Sees Beginning of Closing Arguments By Danielle Silva SAN FRANCISCO - A man is charged with seven restraining order violations after allegedly going nea ...

March 10, 2020
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Man Who Served 11 Years for Second-Degree Murder Will Be Released This May

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|Date: March 09, 2020
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Man Who Served 11 Years for Second-Degree Murder Will Be Released This May

By Alexandra Cline SAN FRANCISCO - With both the defendant’s family members and the victim’s dad present ...

By Alexandra Cline SAN FRANCISCO - With both the defendant’s family members and the victim’s dad present in the courtroom, sentencing was determined for Jonathan Johnston on Feb. 6, 2020, in the SF Ha ...

March 09, 2020
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Defense Argues Lack of Police Investigation in Domestic Violence Trial

Posted by Danielle Silva
|Date: March 04, 2020
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Defense Argues Lack of Police Investigation in Domestic Violence Trial

By Danielle Silva SAN FRANCISCO - The prosecution and the defense began their closing arguments in a dome ...

By Danielle Silva SAN FRANCISCO - The prosecution and the defense began their closing arguments in a domestic violence trial, with the prosecution arguing the defendant couldn't have been doing self-d ...

March 04, 2020
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Was Woman Raped When She Was Unconscious? Jury Has to Decide

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 03, 2020
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Was Woman Raped When She Was Unconscious? Jury Has to Decide

By David Greenwald and Manuel Espinoza SAN FRANCISCO - “Can you see her?” Assistant DA Lailah Morris aske ...

By David Greenwald and Manuel Espinoza SAN FRANCISCO - “Can you see her?” Assistant DA Lailah Morris asked the jury. The defendant, she described, was “fully inside her.” “No, I don’t want this,” th ...

March 03, 2020
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Complaining Witness and Her Boyfriend Testify In Rape Case

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|Date: March 02, 2020
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Complaining Witness and Her Boyfriend Testify In Rape Case

By Caleb Mathews SAN FRANCISCO--Arguments for the trial of Enrique Saucedo-Zapeda proceeded as Judge Caff ...

By Caleb Mathews SAN FRANCISCO--Arguments for the trial of Enrique Saucedo-Zapeda proceeded as Judge Caffese and the jury listened to cross-examination of the alleged victim and the alleged victim's b ...

March 02, 2020
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Two of Three Co-Defendants Released in Robbery and Manslaughter Trial

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|Date: March 02, 2020
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Two of Three Co-Defendants Released in Robbery and Manslaughter Trial

By Alexandra Cline SAN FRANCISCO- On Feb. 28, 2020, the final sentences for three co-defendants originall ...

By Alexandra Cline SAN FRANCISCO- On Feb. 28, 2020, the final sentences for three co-defendants originally charged with murder and multiple counts of robbery were determined by Judge Brendan Conroy. B ...

March 02, 2020
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Resentencing and Release Approved for Previously Convicted Felony Murderer

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|Date: February 27, 2020
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Resentencing and Release Approved for Previously Convicted Felony Murderer

By Alexandra Cline SAN FRANCISCO- On Feb. 21, 2020, at 850 Bryant St. in Department 25, a hearing was hel ...

By Alexandra Cline SAN FRANCISCO- On Feb. 21, 2020, at 850 Bryant St. in Department 25, a hearing was held for the resentencing of Wallace Ferguson, who was previously convicted of a felony murder in ...

February 27, 2020
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Specialists Testify As Expert Witnesses in Sexual Assault Case

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|Date: February 27, 2020
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Specialists Testify As Expert Witnesses in Sexual Assault Case

By Manuel Espinoza SAN FRANCISCO - On Feb. 26, 2020, a trial charging the defendant with two counts of ra ...

By Manuel Espinoza SAN FRANCISCO - On Feb. 26, 2020, a trial charging the defendant with two counts of rape brought forward two expert witnesses to testify. The hearing was part of an ongoing trial ag ...

February 27, 2020
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Woman Alleges Rape after Waking Up to Man Penetrating Her

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 25, 2020
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Woman Alleges Rape after Waking Up to Man Penetrating Her

SAN FRANCISCO - “[The victim] became aware she was being raped when she woke up to find Enrique Saucedo-Z ...

SAN FRANCISCO - “[The victim] became aware she was being raped when she woke up to find Enrique Saucedo-Zepeda penetrating her with his penis,” Assistant District Attorney Lailah Morris argued as she ...

February 25, 2020
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Racist Drug Laws Lead to Racist Enforcement in Cities Across the Country

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|Date: February 23, 2020
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Racist Drug Laws Lead to Racist Enforcement in Cities Across the Country

Across the country law enforcement selectively targets Black and brown people for stops, arrests, prosecu ...

Across the country law enforcement selectively targets Black and brown people for stops, arrests, prosecution, and imprisonment at wildly disproportionate rates. By Ezekilel Edwards and Shilpi ...

February 23, 2020
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SB 1437 Hearings in San Francisco

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: February 11, 2020
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SB 1437 Hearings in San Francisco

Lifer to be re-sentenced after 33 years in prison; Re-sentencing denied to defendant in 1991 hostage taki ...

Lifer to be re-sentenced after 33 years in prison; Re-sentencing denied to defendant in 1991 hostage taking shoot-out By Stephen Yair Liebb SAN FRANCISCO - On Feb. 7, 2020, Thomas Keel, a man convic ...

February 11, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: New SF DA Aims Sights at Gang Laws ‘Infused with Racism’

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 30, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: New SF DA Aims Sights at Gang Laws ‘Infused with Racism’

In 2010, the Vanguard’s fledgling Court Watch Project followed a six-month Yolo County trial as a group o ...

In 2010, the Vanguard’s fledgling Court Watch Project followed a six-month Yolo County trial as a group of lawyers, volunteering their time, attacked the West Sacramento Gang Injunction. Despite exte ...

December 30, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Death Penalty, Media Coverage and the Court Watch

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 17, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Death Penalty, Media Coverage and the Court Watch

A friend and reader pointed me over the weekend to a column from Nicholas Kristof entitled, “When We Kill ...

A friend and reader pointed me over the weekend to a column from Nicholas Kristof entitled, “When We Kill.” The author argues, “Everything you think you know about the death penalty is wrong,” and th ...

June 17, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Why No Charges in Police-Involved Beating in SF?

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|Date: December 03, 2015
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Why No Charges in Police-Involved Beating in SF?

By Jeff Adachi Nearly 25 years after the Rodney King beating shocked the world, Stanislav Petrov lay writ ...

By Jeff Adachi Nearly 25 years after the Rodney King beating shocked the world, Stanislav Petrov lay writhing in a San Francisco alley, desperately trying to protect his head from more than 30 nightst ...

December 03, 2015
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My View: Why Davis and Other Cities Have Sanctuary Laws

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 11, 2015
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My View: Why Davis and Other Cities Have Sanctuary Laws

This week some are asking whether Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez will become this election cycle’s Willie H ...

This week some are asking whether Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez will become this election cycle’s Willie Horton (a convicted felon who was released on furlough, and re-offended). For those who don’t kn ...

July 11, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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The Over-Policing of Black Women

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|Date: May 13, 2015
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The Over-Policing of Black Women

By Jeff Adachi While citizens demand answers for the police killings of unarmed men of color nationally, ...

By Jeff Adachi While citizens demand answers for the police killings of unarmed men of color nationally, an everyday injustice continues unabated in San Francisco: the profiling of African American wo ...

May 13, 2015
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Commentary: San Francisco Law Enforcement Suddenly Finds Itself Under Fire

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 01, 2015
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Commentary: San Francisco Law Enforcement Suddenly Finds Itself Under Fire

When Ferguson took to the news last August following the shooting death of Michael Brown, few people had ...

When Ferguson took to the news last August following the shooting death of Michael Brown, few people had heard of the suburban St. Louis community, but the problems of a largely white police and city ...

April 01, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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