Fired Southern California White Cop Ordered To Stand Trial for Filing False Report About Brutal Arrest of Black Man for Smoking At Trolley Station by A fired White cop caught on camera brutalizing a Black man for allegedly smoking a cigarette at a Southern California trolley stop was ordered to …
News in Brief by California: Five Southern California cops were placed on leave in June 2021 after a video surfaced showing them attacking suspects, according to reports by the Washington Post. On June 10, 2021, four Glendale police officers went on paid leave while an investigation was opened into their response to …
Details Surface About Firm That Hacked iPhone for the FBI in 2016 by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso It was in 2016 that a shooting in San Bernardino, California, sparked legal action in which the FBI attempted to use the courts to force Apple to enable a vulnerability that …
California Court of Appeal Reverses Felony-Murder Conviction Where Sentencing Occurred After SB 1437 Enacted by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, Division Eight, held that a felony-murder conviction was invalid when guilt was determined prior to the enactment of Senate Bill 1437 …
California Court of Appeal Vacates Guilty Plea That Resulted in Legal Fiction by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, Division Three, reversed a guilty plea where a trial court approved a plea bargain for human trafficking of a minor for a …
California Court of Appeal: When Federal Court Finds Petitioner Satisfies Schlup Standard, Victim Compensation Board Must Recommend Payment of Claim Without Hearing by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Five, held that when a federal district court finds that a habeas petitioner has …
Ninth Circuit: Directly Searching Inside Detainee’s Pocket Not a Valid Terry Frisk for Weapons by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that police exceeded their authority to search for weapons under Terry when they directly searched the inside pocket of …
Carmona v. County of San Mateo, CA, Settlement, Excessive Force, 2021 GENERAL RELEASE This Release ("Release") is entered into by plaintiff OSCAR TAPIA-CARMONA, for himself and his executors, personal representatives, administrators, heirs, assigns, and anyone else acting on his behalf ("Plaintiff'), to resolve the matter of Oscar Tapia-Carmona v. County …
Ninth Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to Officers Who Coerced 13-Year-Old to Falsely Confess to Murder by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed in part and reversed in part the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California’s denial …
News in Brief by California: Two San Diego Police Department (SDPD) officers repeatedly punched a homeless Black man they were arresting on May 12, 2021, after they allegedly caught him attempting to urinate in public. According to a report by the Washington Post, the incident was captured on a cellphone …
The Vallejo Cop Controversy: Whistleblowers Expose a Secret Club of Killers by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Police shootings across the country in recent years have raised questions about how cops are trained and their attitudes toward the local communities they are supposed to protect and serve. Under what circumstances …
Polo v. County of Los Angeles, CA, Order of Dismissal, False Arrest and Excessive Force, 2021 Case 2:20-cv-04857-FMO-MAA Document 36 Filed 07/12/21 Page 1 of 1 Page ID #:229 1 2 3 4 5 JS - 6 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 …
California Court of Appeal: Defendant Cannot Be Convicted of Robbery and Kidnapping to Commit Robbery for Same Act by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso The Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, Division Eight, vacated a defendant’s conviction for robbery because he had been convicted for kidnapping to commit …
News in Brief by Alabama: An Alabama state trooper arrested on April 27, 2021 for sexually abusing a child had been fired from the FBI for sexual misconduct before he was ever hired in Alabama, fooling the state Law Enforcment Agency (ALEA) with a letter of recommendation that was apparently …
California Court of Appeal: § 3051’s Exclusion of One Strike Offenders from Youthful Offender Parole Hearings Violates Equal Protection by Douglas Ankney by Doug Ankney The Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, held that Penal Code § 3051, subd. (h) violates the equal protection rights of Andre Lamont …
Letter to Kelso Re COVID-19 Mandatory Staff Vaccinations PRISON LAW OFFICE General Delivery, San Quentin, CA 94964 Telephone (510) 280-2621 Fax (510) 280-2704 www.prisonlaw.com Director: Donald Specter Managing Attorney: Sara Norman Staff Attorneys: VIA EMAIL ONLY June 14, 2021 J. Clark Kelso Receiver RE: Rana Anabtawi Laura Bixby Patrick …
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Ashker v. Govenor of CA and the Failures of Solitary Confinement Reform Keramet Reiter Forthcoming in Law’s Infamy, in the Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Austin Sarat, ed., New York University Press Law’s Infamy Ashker v. Governor of California and the Failures of Solitary Confinement Reform Keramet …
Rand Corporation, CA, Understanding Subgroups Within the LA County Sheriff's Department, 2021 Research Report C O R P O R AT I O N SAMUEL PETERSON, DIONNE BARNES-PROBY, KATHRYN E. BOUSKILL, LOIS M. DAVIS, MATTHEW L. MIZEL, BEVERLY A. WEIDMER, ISABEL LEAMON, ALEXANDRA MENDOZA-GRAF, MATT STRAWN, JOSHUA SNOKE, THOMAS EDWARD …
California AB 263 Private Detention Facilities 2021 STATE OF CALIFORNIA AUTHENTICATED ELECTRONIC LEGAL MATERIAL Assembly Bill No. 263 CHAPTER 294 An act to add Section 7321 to the Government Code, relating to private detention facilities, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. [Approved by Governor September 24, 2021. …
