Kate Chatfield, executive director of the California Public Defenders Association, discusses the crisis in California’s public defense system, the need for increased funding, and the failure of increased incarceration to provide public safety.
WOODLAND, CA – During Justin Gonzalez’s bail hearing Monday here in Yolo County Superior Court, Judge Sam…
By Brinda Kalita MODESTO, CA- In Stanislaus County Superior Court about two weeks ago, a PC section…
By Brinda Kalita MODESTO, CA – A man’s PC § 1170.5 petition requesting resentencing was approved here Friday in…
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Woodland, CA – Five years after Justin Gonzalez and Alexis Velazquez…
This week on Everyday Injustice we talk with Joanne Scheer, whose son’s incarceration on felony murder, special…
By Daniella Espinoza SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The California Supreme Court in August ruled that “some special…
By David M. Greenwald and Robert J. Hansen Woodland, CA – In 2018 Justin Gonzalez was sentenced…
By Robert J. Hansen In May 2019, Judge Mullen declared California Senate Bill 1437 unconstitutional when the…
By Brinda Kalita ANAHEIM, CA- Orange County Superior Court last week reversed an order which denied Hector…
By Julian Verdon, Samuel Van Blaricom, Jake Wylie, Carson Eschen, and Gwyn Redemann **This report is a…
By Dale Hurd Mule Creek resident Jose Rivera’s sentence of life without the possibility of parole (LWOP)…
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Nathaniel Porter attempted to get resentencing under Penal Code section 1170.95…
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Los Angeles, CA – An appellate court has reversed a trial…
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor An appellate court has overturned a lower court’s decision denying a…
In 2020, the Vanguard covered a series of hearings involving Zachary Vanderhorst, 65, who had been imprisoned…
by Robert J. Hansen Sacramento, CA – A demonstration was held at the Capital yesterday for Harvest…
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Woodland, CA – Yesterday the Yolo County DA’s office tweeted out,…
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Tahoe City, CA – With the case set to go to…
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – California’s Third District Appellate Court this week quickly…