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Alaska Dispatch – Amanda Coyne – Mar 19, 2012
Less than two years after the death of former Alaska U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens in a Western Alaska plane crash came the report he longed to see …
The San Francisco Chronicle – By Troy Hooper Wednesday, Mar 14 2012
It’s been over 50 years, but Wayne Ritchie says he can still remember how it felt to be dosed with acid.
He was drinking bourbon …
By Sevil Omer, msnbc.com
Evan Miller and Kuntrell Jackson are lifers, condemned at 14 to spend their lives in prison without the possibility of parole for their involvement in separate murders. Their backers say their sentences …
The Sacramento Bee – March 14, 2012
An Assembly budget subcommittee voted unanimously Wednesday to block expansion of a statewide court case management system that has become the focal point of a months-long political war between …
KEPR-TV By Ryan Simms – WASHINGTON STATE — Action News is digging deeper into a case before the state Supreme Court would cut caseloads for public defenders.
The law of the land is causing major stress …
The San Francisco Chronicle – Vivian Ho – Monday, March 12, 2012
In facing the possible loss of hundreds of drunken-driving convictions because of a testing controversy, San Francisco is not alone….[for full story: http://defender411.us/yOTJOU ]
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Eagle Rock Patch News – March 12, 2012 – One of the implications of AB 109, which Gov. Jerry Brown signed in April 2011 and which kicked in Oct. 1, 2011, is that prisoners returning …
The San Francisco Chronicle by Justin Berton – Sunday, March 11, 2012 In the end, even the people he may put in prison say Carl Marino did the right thing.
They just wonder what took him …
The late Alaska Republican’s former colleagues want six Justice Department lawyers to be punished or removed for alleged misconduct in his criminal trial.
The Los Angeles Times – By Richard A. Serrano, Washington Bureau – March …
By PAUL ELIAS Associated Press – 03/07/2012
SAN FRANCISCO—For the third time in less than a year, hopes of exoneration by hundreds of drunken driving suspects were raised when a district attorney announced widespread problems with …
CBS News – By Ben Tracy
CBS News) Hundreds of drunk-driving convictions in San Francisco could be tossed out as a result of potentially incorrect breathalyzer test results.
Police in San Francisco are now being accused of …
The ABA Journal – Martha Neil
A controversial Illinois state law making it a felony offense for an individual to record police in public without their permission was ruled unconstitutional today by a Chicago judge.
Judge Stanley …
By Suzanne Bohan – Contra Costa Times
When Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law last year drastically changing the rules for oversight of low-level felons upon their release from prison, plans for handling the influx of …
The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin – ONTARIO – by Mike Cruz, Staff Writer
District Attorney Michael A. Ramos announced Thursday that he supports the governor’s upcoming ballot initiative to continue funding for prison realignment and other …
By msnbc.com staff - A mother and a high school student have pleaded guilty to killing a man they wrongly believed was a pedophile, STV Local in Scotland reported….[for full story: http://defender411.us/A0GFTZ ]
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The Los Angeles Times – March 1, 2012
Capital punishment opponents announced Thursday they have submitted 800,000 signatures to election authorities to put a measure on the November ballot that would ask voters to replace the …
The Sacramento Bee – March 1, 2012
Supporters of a proposed initiative to repeal the death penalty in California plan to begin turning in nearly…[for full story: http://defender411.us/wq5p9A ]
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