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The NYPD Is Tossing Out Hundreds of Misconduct Cases — Including Stop-and-Frisks — Without Even Looking at Them
The cases were fully investigated and substantiated by the city’s police oversight agency, the Civilian Complaint Review ...
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COURT WATCH: Yolo Judge Finds Probation Violated Despite Although Defense Claims Prosecution Relied on Facts Not in Evidence
WOODLAND, CA – Superior Court Judge Daniel Wolk this past week here in Yolo County Superior Court ruled there was a probation violation despite claims by the defense that a deputy district attorney ...
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My View: UCD Law Professor Examines Whether New Information Can Lead to Support For Housing
A new paper this week from UC Davis Law Professor Chris Elmendorf and some colleagues explores whether housing supply skeptics learn – the answer they posit is yes, they do, “And when they do, they ...
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Guest Commentary: Denouncing Claims in Complaint by Businesses Threatening Berkeley for Failing to Remove Encampments
Where Do We Go? today denounced defamatory allegations in a much-publicized complaint for injunctive relief in which various Berkeley businesses are named as plaintiffs. As of today the complaint has ...
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Dark Gardening: Deconstructing Independent Carceral Journalism Using Gwendolyn Brooks’ Poem “To Prisoners”
She’d already been gone over a month by the time the August edition of All Of Us Or None slid into my pod at Valley State Prison (VSP) and gave me reason to stop my EBSCO search, close my laptop and ...
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Governor Signs ‘Smash and Grab’ Bill – Pushing Stronger Felony Sentences For Large-Scale Theft
Sacramento, CA – On Thursday, Governor Newsom signed the final bill to complete California’s landmark legislative package to crack down on retail and property crime. AB 1960, authored by Speaker ...
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Sacramento Bee’s Renée C. Byer and Theresa Clift
In Tabler v. Lumpkin, the ACLU represents a Texas death row prisoner whose lawyers refused to represent... Family of Man Killed by Security Guard After Giants Game in Downtown San Francisco Sue ...
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SF Jury Acquits Man Acting in Self Defense after Stranger Burst into Apartment, Returned Later with Alleged Weapon
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – A man accused of assault and other felonies was acquitted by a San Francisco jury Aug. 26 after the SF Public Defender’s Office successfully argued the accused was simply defending ...
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COURT WATCH: Motion to Dismiss Denied Despite Allegations of Excessive Force in Park Arrest; Defense Questions Decision to Target Accused
LOS ANGELES, CA – Deputy Public Defender Jaime L. Bourns, at a preliminary hearing Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, motioned to dismiss her client’s felony charge of resisting an ...
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Fair and Just Prosecution Criticizes Dehumanizing Debate Rhetoric on Immigrants and Crime
In response to statements made by former President Donald Trump, Fair and Just Prosecution Acting Co-Executive Director Amy Fettig pushed back against what she called “dehumanizing rhetoric regarding ...
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