California Supreme Court Announces Predicate Offenses for Gang Enhancement or Gang Participation Not Provable Using Expert Witness Testimony Without Personal Knowledge of Facts by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Supreme Court of California held that, for charges of gang participation and gang enhancements under California Penal Code, § subdivisions …
California Supreme Court: Furnishing Drugs Resulting in Overdose Death Does Not Automatically Trigger Great Bodily Injury Enhancement by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Supreme Court of California held that a conviction by itself for furnishing a controlled substance to someone who subsequently suffers injury from its use is insufficient, …
Federal Judge Lets BLM Protestors’ Suit Against San Jose Police Proceed by A federal class-action lawsuit accusing the San Jose Police Department (“SJPD”) of using excessive force against Black Lives Matter activists during 2020 protests is moving forward after a federal judge refused a motion to dismiss the case on …
California Cities Launching Alternative Policing Efforts for Mental Health 911 Calls by A year after it was announced in September 2020, a new project is finally getting off the ground in Oakland, California, that will shift some mental health 911 calls from police to civilian responders. Called MACRO—Mobile Assistance Community …
Lee v. Landrum, CA, Settlement, Excessive Force, 2021 SETrI,EMENT AND RET.EASE AGREEMENT This Settlement and Release Agreement ("Agreement") is made this 8th day of September, 2021, memorializes the terms of the settlement entered at the Settlement Conference between Plaintiff Zechariah Lee hereinafter sometimes referred to as "Plaintiff") and Defendants County …
Moore v. Calderon, CA, Brief of Amici Curiae, Sexual Harassment, 2021 Case: 21-15849, 09/17/2021, ID: 12231435, DktEntry: 20, Page 1 of 33 Case No. 21-15849 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT TERRENCE JESSE MOORE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. S. CALDERON, Defendant-Appellee On Appeal from Order of the United States …
California Town Pays $6 Million to Family of Mentally Ill Man Tasered by Cop by A settlement was announced on August 10, 2021, between the city of Pleasanton, California, and the family of a mentally ill man who died after a struggle with city cops trying to restrain him in …
California Supreme Court Announces Predicate Offenses for Gang Enhancement or Gang Participation Not Provable Using Expert Witness Testimony Without Personal Knowledge of Facts by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Supreme Court of California held that, for charges of gang participation and gang enhancements under California Penal Code, § subdivisions …
California Court of Appeal: § 1170.95(e) Permits Trial Courts to Redesignate More Than One Underlying Felony in Resentencing Vacated Felony-Murder Conviction by Douglas Ankney by Doug Ankney The Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, Division Three ruled that § 1170.95(e) permits a vacated felony-murder conviction to be redesignated as more …
Securus Technologies, LLC v. California Dept of Technology, CA, Petition for Writ of Mandate, Inmate Phone Calls, 2021 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO HRG DATE/ TIME September 10, 2021 / 9:30 A.M. UDGE James P. Arguelles SECURUS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, DEPT. NO. CLERK 17 Ward Case No.: 34-2021-80003594 Petitioner, …
LA Co. Sheriff’s Deputies Sued for Beating & Disfiguring Black Man During Traffic Stop by A federal lawsuit filed on June 21, 2021, accuses a half-dozen deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office (LACSO) of brutalizing a suspect during a traffic stop in 2020. The plaintiff, 37-year-old Christopher Bailey, …
Townsend v. County of Santa Cruz, CA, Order Granting and Denying in Part Motion for Summary Judgment, Lack of Medical Care, 2021 Case 5:19-cv-00630-BLF Document 130 Filed 09/01/21 Page 1 of 29 1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 6 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 7 SAN JOSE DIVISION …
U.S. Dept of Justice, CA, Investigation of the San Luis Obispo County Jail, 2021 U.S. Department of Justice United States Attorney’s Office Central District of California Civil Rights Division U.S. Mail: U.S. Mail: 300 North Los Angeles Street, Suite 7516 Los Angeles, California 90012 Telephone: (213) 894-2400 Office of the …
Black Mom Beaten Unconscious by White California Deputies: ‘I Think She’s Out’ by A California mother who stopped her car to trade-off driving duty with her father on a family road trip was beaten unconscious and arrested by a pair of Solano County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) deputies, who later lied …
DECISION ADOPTING INTERIM RATE RELIEF FOR INCARCERATED PERSON’S CALLING SERVICES ALJ/CF1/avs Date of Issuance 8/23/2021 Decision 21-08-037 August 19, 2021 BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA Order Instituting Rulemaking to Consider Regulating Telecommunications Services Used by Incarcerated People. Rulemaking 20-10-002 DECISION ADOPTING INTERIM RATE RELIEF FOR …
California Cops Kill Native American Man Who Was “Agitated” by A run-in with California cops in the early morning hours of July 24, 2021, turned ugly for an indigenous man and his dog. Around 2 a.m. that day, deputies with the Inyo County Sheriff’s Office (ICSO) who were responding to …
Fired LA Cop Charged For Shooting and Killing Mentally Disabled Man in California Costco by A former Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer was arrested on August 10, 2021, and charged with the 2019 killing of an intellectually disabled man who slapped him in a Southern California Costco store. The …
