A Simple Case Becomes an Ordeal As Deputy DA Overplays His Hand
It should have been a routine preliminary hearing. Three youths, accused of being members of the Norteno criminal street gang in Woodland, were involved in a January incident in which a 40-ounce beer bottle was thrown at an alleged member of the rival Sureno criminal gang, but missed and broke the window of the 7-11 store.
However, with Deputy DA Ryan Couzens on the job, there is no such think as a routine preliminary hearing. The defense attorneys in the case during the break were overheard complaining that this had become a “typical Ryan Couzens three-day prelim.”
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It is a rare event when I agree with former Davis Mayor Jerry Adler, but in this case I think his reading was right on.
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In late March, the Vanguard used a public records request to show the fundamental failure of Choices for Healthy Aging to impose its agenda on the ConAgra site.
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By Judy Kerr – 
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This weekend, much of the nation is watching the Final Four. I was particularly glued to my seat yesterday to watch a couple of supposed underdogs, Butler and Virginia Commonwealth University, battle to see who would take on more traditional powers UConn or Kentucky in the college basketball championship.
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It was an interesting and contentious week in Wisconsin and elsewhere, as Governor Scott Walker attempted to sidestep a judicial order by getting an agency with no official authority to publish the controversial law that would put a halt to collective bargaining for Wisconsin’s public employees.
Pedro Ramirez and Johnny Morales were scheduled to be sentenced on Friday in Woodland, after pleading no contest to an attack on a Sikh tax driver and making racial slurs during the attack.
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